Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
--On Monday, March 08, 2004 20:12:25 +0100 Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote: [ Re: Protocol "B" ] > And, though one might think it has better performance, and it was > *intended* to have better performance, benchmarks show that it > DOES NOT have better performance. We will eventually find out why, > and fix it. > Meanwhile: Use protocoll "C", and enjoy transactional semantics > *and* best performance for short distance links. > > "A" is for long distance / high latency links. > Using "B" does currently not gain anything, but degrades > throughput, and loses transactional semantics, so should be avoided. Perhaps a note to that effect can be added to the docs? We went with B here because if both machines went down at once, we were hosed anyway, and wanted better performance. *sigh* Time for another maintenance window (and I just upgraded everything yesterday!) -- Carson