# Updates on Test Data **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [April 30, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034 "2024-04-30T15:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/149 "2024-05-09T14:49:55Z")
Just for safety I better post it in this thread as well: We will do some spot checks regarding the bandwidth our storage nodes have. We will run the new remote benchmark tool against some random selected nodes for a short duration. We are going to use big piece sizes to compensate for the fact that the performance improvements are not rolled out yet. We hope we will still get an accurate reading. The data will be unpaid because we upload the pieces to the storage nodes without commiting the result to the satellite. Garbage collection is going to clean it up later. We will keep the upload burst short to keep the amount of unpaid data as low as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/150 "2024-05-12T03:33:55Z")
> [@Bryanm](#): > > We hope that this process will enable us to scale up the capacity we need as required by our growth. In addition to that we may also send out announcements asking for more nodes to be brought online in specific locations as required. If you’d like more nodes to be brought online in specific locations… will that be combined with your SLC-capacity-reservation-with-TTL system? Making an announcement for more nodes somewhere is a relatively weak signal to SNOs… but focusing capacity-reservation at _existing_ nodes in your required geo would be a strong one. If you want a extra nodes brought online in a geo: start filling the disks of current nodes with your SLC reservation data 🤑 ---
**Author:** ![Bryanm](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/bryanm/32/7825_2.png) [@Bryanm](https://forum.storj.io/u/Bryanm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/151 "2024-05-14T04:03:55Z")
Roxor, Yes we have considered this approach and will likely implement it along with an announcement at some point in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/153 "2024-05-16T18:33:57Z")
We just got our first performance test 5-6 hours ago? Looks lovely in the traffic graphs: hope you saw the numbers you were looking for! ---
**Author:** ![pangolin](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pangolin/32/15685_2.png) [@pangolin](https://forum.storj.io/u/pangolin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/154 "2024-05-16T18:54:27Z")
Something overwhelmed my Pi-hole a few hours ago. I guess it was the storj test… I had to change the ‘dns-forward-max’ setting to a higher value, default was 150. ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/155 "2024-05-20T13:47:21Z")
Storagenode rollout should be finished shortly. Next round of benchmark tests incoming. Prepare for impact. Everyone hold tight 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nerdatwork](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/nerdatwork/32/1135_2.png) [@nerdatwork](https://forum.storj.io/u/nerdatwork)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/156 "2024-05-20T13:54:44Z")
> [@littleskunk](#): > > Prepare for impact Meanwhile my Windows node. ![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/ZtTLRfBw-ZsAAAAC/no-hard-feelings-christina-applegate.gif) Compared to Linux node ![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/QC5QGFle_sIAAAAd/transcend-protable.gif) ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/157 "2024-05-20T14:02:19Z")
> [@nerdatwork](#): > > Meanwhile my Windows node. I believe we managed to reduce the gap between windows and linux performance. Lets see how your windows node performance now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pangolin](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pangolin/32/15685_2.png) [@pangolin](https://forum.storj.io/u/pangolin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/158 "2024-05-20T14:34:00Z")
> [@littleskunk](#): > > I believe we managed to reduce the gap between windows and linux performance. Hm, is this good or bad news? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![ACarneiro](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/acarneiro/32/1129_2.png) [@ACarneiro](https://forum.storj.io/u/ACarneiro)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/160 "2024-05-20T15:12:16Z")
Well, in the lat 30 minutes all my nodes have drastically reduced network traffic. So either I’ve missed it or the tests have been happening and are now completed 🤷🏻‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/161 "2024-05-20T15:16:30Z")
I don’t think they’ve started the tests: so… ![hold_on](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/c/8/c866d81fa9f614bdc84bce297917c38fac76ad59.webp) ---
**Author:** ![ACarneiro](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/acarneiro/32/1129_2.png) [@ACarneiro](https://forum.storj.io/u/ACarneiro)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/162 "2024-05-20T15:18:32Z")
Then why has this happened? If it had been just on one machine I’d ignore it but these machines are spread across 3 different countries… ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/d/3/d3894affdffce6fe520d8735636c670ae87ef139.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/163 "2024-05-20T15:20:12Z")
It looks like they chopped all synthetic traffic (or broke a satellite?). Even large SNOs had traffic [go to near-zero](http://www.th3van.dk/mrtg-storj-graph-th3van.dk.html). ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/164 "2024-05-20T15:20:50Z")
> [@ACarneiro](#): > > Then why has this happened? These are some beautiful colors. Unfortunalty I am bad in mind reading. What do you mean with “this”? ---
**Author:** ![ACarneiro](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/acarneiro/32/1129_2.png) [@ACarneiro](https://forum.storj.io/u/ACarneiro)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/165 "2024-05-20T15:22:11Z")
You wouldn’t want to read my mind, there is not much there… I was alluding to my earlier post about severely reduced network traffic and node activity (which you can see by the reduction in all the pretty colours on Disk IO, IOWait, Network, etc.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ACarneiro](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/acarneiro/32/1129_2.png) [@ACarneiro](https://forum.storj.io/u/ACarneiro)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/166 "2024-05-20T15:24:29Z")
Perhaps it’s the calm before the storm… 😉 Bring it on, guys! I’m curious to see how far you can push these things. 💪🏼😄 ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/167 "2024-05-20T15:32:09Z")
It looks like traffic is climbing back again (to already half of what it was an hour ago?). Maybe some Storj Intern rebooted the wrong system 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snorkel](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/snorkel/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@snorkel](https://forum.storj.io/u/snorkel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/168 "2024-05-20T15:46:39Z")
Maybe wait a few days until all BF are processed; the Trash is still cleaning. My Synos are boiling like never before. ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/169 "2024-05-20T15:50:04Z")
The network has to handle it even while garbage collection is running. So perfect timing to test it out. ---
**Author:** ![snorkel](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/snorkel/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@snorkel](https://forum.storj.io/u/snorkel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/170 "2024-05-20T15:52:40Z")
OK. I will bring them some bombons and flowers and tell them there’s nothing to fear. 😅 [Previous page](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034.md?page=7) [Next page](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034.md?page=9)