Re: Informix 5 Performance Issues

Nils Myklebust wrote: > Probably no. > Assuming you by 586 realy mean Pentium processors, a 60 MHz Pentium > should execute programs perhaps 50 to 100% faster than a 50MHz 486. (I > no longer remember the exact number, and can't find them at the Intel > Web site any more, but I believe they where in this balpark.) You > can't compare clock frequencies only. The Pentium also executes more > instructions per clock tick. If the Pentiums are 100% faster 32 486s > will obviously slow you down. Even if they are only 50% faster I doubt > somewhat that even the Sequent technology will give you a significant > performance boost. > Isn't it an option to replace the current Pentiums with faster > processors? If Sequent is any good at hardware designs you should be > able to put in 16 200MHz Pentium Pro processors. That's the way > deasent hardware should be designed. Nils, Thanks for the reply. The short and sweet of it is that the Sequent 790 only goes up to 60MHz Pentiums. To get faster, we have to move up to the Sequent Symmetry 5000 line, which is a costly upgrade. ------------------ Having given up my search for the truth as hopeless, I'm now looking for a few good fantasies