Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 17:18:48 UTC 2019

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:11:48 -0600, Ken Gilmour said:

> Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very
> different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of
> about 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and
> CPU, on the server side it's IO and FSB

The trick is to realize that 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb can be remodeled
as 12 Gigabytes/sec of random 128K writes into large files.

Which isn't even that hard with modern gear, especially if you have the budget
for SSDs.
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