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Hi
I am just wondering if anyone has ever attempted to connect their slaves over a network FASTER than 1Gb? For example 2Gb or 10Gb?
Would this be an advantage with latency? It ought to be possible to upgrade the machines to run faster Ethernet, but I am wondering what threshold of strain (ie how heavy a use of track counts etc) might warrent it?
Thanks
I am using 10GB between host and slave. Works flawlessly.
I can't give any information such as "how many more instruments can I load etc." as I have never compared. I simply built the slave with 10GB from day 1 and it's flawless.
What I can say is that the utilization is like 1-3% with all dimension strings playing. It appears to be super powerful. My latency is easily as low as with a 1GB. I can run Dimension strings at 128 samples with all sections going. Maybe someone else thinks that sucks (I don't know) but for me it feels basically like real time with no lag.
Thank for the reply @cgernaey
On one hand VSL suggests there isn't any gain using 10GE but then logically speaking if we are to stream 300+ tracks through slaves shouldn't there be a bottleneck or worse latency?
There isn't any concrete information available here. It would be really nice if the moderators can shed light on this once in for all.