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Thanks for the reply. Yeah, that’s the talk I was referring to.

I suppose I could try my own benchmark out tbf. I’m curious to see what it can do on today’s hardware. I would think it’s mostly network-bound for Raft consensus, though the 10x ping time increase you demonstrated without an appreciable drop in writes suggests it’s more complex than that.

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Yes, fast networks matter.

I did introduce Queued Writes[1] since that talk, allowing you to trade off performance versus immediate durability. It may interest you -- network is much less of a factor then, and you should get a 10-100x increase in throughput.

[1] https://rqlite.io/docs/api/queued-writes/

Unfortunately for the application I was looking at using rqlite for, the possibility of data loss - however remote - was not an acceptable trade-off.

OK, well, you could try client-side batching too, if you can. That will also improve performance substantially.

Otherwise, if you try with more modern networks and disks, let me know what you see.

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