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Subject: Re: gmirror(8): round-robin vs. load algorithm
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Ivan Voras escribió:
> There are some performance-improving patches for gmirror out there, for
> example here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/113885

Yes, I know it (indeed I've read it previously to write my post).
But according my own benchmark (using postmark tool) the performance of 
'load' it's the same as 'round-robin'.
So, I tend to view 'load' algorithm (even in this current 
implementation) as a kind of 'secure round-robin' for a servers with 
high I/O.

> Maybe you should contact pjd.

He's so busy. I hope he could read this message in list.

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Thanks,
Jordi Espasa Clofent