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Hi Fons,

Each client directly connected to the server. Putting in an olbd seemed
somewhat useless since the redirection would happen only once and then the
olbd would be completely out of the picture. Also, we essentially know what
overhead (essentially a 1-time cost)  the olbd adds to the flow so that can
be calculated.

As for the write benchmark, I agree. But, that is more difficult to devise.
Different files (more realistic but requires a lot more disk)? Write to
/dev/null? Things like that. I'll see what Bill Weels can come up with.

Andy

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From: "Fons Rademakers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Finally, the xrootd performance benchmark is here


> Hi Andy,
>
>   very nice results indeed. Did each client go via the olbd or did they
> contact directly the xrootd server?
>
> Also, although xrootd is primarily a data server, it would be nice to see
a
> write benchmark, like a few hundred clients trying to open write streams
at
> the same time to a bunch of xrootd servers.
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
>
>
> Andrew Hanushevsky wrote:
> > We finally got the xrootd performance benchmark together and put it on
the
> > web:
> >
> > http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/presentations/Xrootd_Performance.htm
> >
> > Frankly, we were suprised (pleasantly so, I add). The results came out
much
> > better that we expected.
> >
> > Andy
> >
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