Large HP9000 Informix use

} } DSI> We're running ONLINE 5.0 with about 100 Gigabytes on two MIServers } } I'm not quite in that league, more in the 1 - 10 GB league, but I happen to } be running 2 sites on HP in that environment. } } > now we're blaming the hardware for lack of performance. We know that's } } The HP's we're running seem adequate, but not inspiring. } } > only part of the story since the database today has no parallelism for } > data query. } } I'm not sure, but I think you're only going to get parallelism if you run } on an MP machine. I think you should look at something like Sequent, rather } than HP. The Sequent ports are often the first out. } } (I also quite like, funnily enough, RS/6000. They seem to have their } disks set up particularly well.) } I can't speak to our SMP offerings because I know nothing about them, although I gather we have a rather good one. Our production machine here is a 9000/870 running 5 Online 5.0 engines with ca. 10GB of data. It is a dual processor box and is doing a nice job for 200+ users. At the moment our primo engine shows 637443379 Total Calls. Her profile is reset periodically, Mike? How frequently? In other words - when was she last reset? j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| Someday you'll go far, jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | if you catch the right train. (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________