Thanks for the quick reply Henry & Patrick. I understand the important of "small things" for a common use case point of view; I don't think my case is so common, but it's also not that big a deal to just write the data to an NFS volume and puts its path in ZK. I was kind of hoping to avoid that, but I have to do that anyhow for other things, so this doesn't do much damage. :)
At some point I'll spend some time understanding how this really affects latency in my case ... I'm keeping just a handful of things that are about 10M in the ensemble, so the memory footprint is no problem. But the network bandwidth could be ... I'll check it out. Thanks, Eric -- Eric Bowman Boboco Ltd ebow...@boboco.ie http://www.boboco.ie/ebowman/pubkey.pgp +35318394189/+353872801532