[Beowulf] copying big files (Henning Fehrmann)

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi

Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Is there a reason bittorrent isn't suited to this application?
> 

Our investigations so far showed that bittorrent is only good if the
files to be transferred fit well into main memory. If you exceed about
90-95% of the RAM your disks will be accessed a lot and the performance
breaks down a lot (we have seen close to wirespeed in the beginning and
in the end we were crawling with mere few 10 kByte/s).

Cheers

Carsten

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