> Apart from the disks, you might also investigate using Opterons instead > of Xeons. there appears to be some significant dent in performance > between Opteron and Xeon. Xeons appear to spend more time in passing > around ownership of memory cache lines in case of a spinlock. > It's not yet clear whether or not here has been worked around the issue. > You should at least investigate it a bit. > > We're using a HP DL385 ourselves which performs quite well. Not atm. Until new benchmarks are published comparing AMD's new quad-core with Intel's ditto, Intel has the edge. http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6 -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
