RE: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains...

From: Brady, Padraig (Padraig.Brady at domain compaq.com)
Date: Mon 04 Oct 1999 - 12:00:22 IST

• Next message: Aidan Keady: "[ILUG] Indigo numbers."
• Previous message: John P . Looney: "Re: [ILUG] RedHat 6.1"
• Maybe in reply to: Dave Airlie: "[ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Next in thread: David Murphy: "Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Reply:(deleted message) David Murphy: "Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Reply: Vincent Cunniffe: "Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
• Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

[snip]

> spend the money on memory or a good scsi controller and scsi
> disks.. much
> better value for money..

I concur..
Any UNIX is heavily I/O (file) intensive and hence the bottelneck
will not be (usually) the processor speed. Get the fastest disk
and controller you can afford.
On that topic, has anyone tried RAID 0 on Linux?
Padraig.

• Next message: Aidan Keady: "[ILUG] Indigo numbers."
• Previous message: John P . Looney: "Re: [ILUG] RedHat 6.1"
• Maybe in reply to: Dave Airlie: "[ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Next in thread: David Murphy: "Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Reply:(deleted message) David Murphy: "Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Reply: Vincent Cunniffe: "Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains..."
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
• Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:04:39 GMT