On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Tom Allison wrote:
All of this was run on a Pentium II 450 MHz with 412MB RAM and a
software linear 0 pair or UDMA 66 7200RPM 8MB Cache drives (really
old) on seperate IDE channels with ReiserFS disk format.
Sometimes it's not clear if someone can speed up what they're doing
simply by using more expensive hardware. In your case, I think
it's safe to say you've got quite a bit of margin for improvement
that way when you run into a problem.
No doubt! But I think it's worth nothing how much performance I
*can* get out of such an old piece of hardware.
My other computer is a Cray. No, that's the bumper sticker on my car.
My other computer is an Athlong 64 2.?GHz with a single disk but less
RAM. It's a xen virtual machine that I'm renting, so increasing the
power of the machine is actually very easy to do, but not yet required.
But I was impressed with how well it works on such an old machine.
