On Tuesday 12 June 2007 06:04, Tom Allison wrote: > 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. > When you're running these test, make sure to look for where your bottlenecks are. Going from a Pentium II to an Atholon may sound great, but if your bottlenecks are all i/o based, it won't give you nearly the jump you might be expecting. -- Robert Treat Database Architect http://www.omniti.com
