[Spread-users] performance again

[Theo Schlossnagle]

Jan Rickes wrote:

>hello list!
>
>we did some spflooder tests and we were increasing the number of hosts (linux).
>we realized, that spread seams to get slower by each added host. 
>  
>
Out of curiosity, what type of switching hardware are you using?  Is it 
multicast-aware and if so is that feature enabled?  Have you tried using 
broadcast instead of multicast?  What is the latency between each of the 
machines?  Can the backplane of your switch support that much traffic?

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