Re: Processor Upgrade Quaestion

What's the box and the application? For OLTP I'd tend to look for more CPUs and for batch work faster processors. Have you run the IBM performance tools? Why is the CPU load so high, what giving the processors the load? Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678729 www.wfsoftware.com/informix # If you broke it, hide the evidence >>> stuart worrall <stuart@NOSPAMlintel.co.uk> 11/11/99 11:49AM >>> Hi We currently have a customer with a duel CPU machine running ay 166 MHz. The CPU's are currently CPU bound as the usage is regularly above 85%. They have two options to upgrade. The options are Old = 2 * 166 1. 4 * 166 2. 2 * 332 The question I have is what will informix work best with. We have advised that they should test but at the moment they would like a rough answer. Anyone have any comments? The system is running on AIX and is IDS 7.24.UC6 Thanks in advance Stuart Worrall e-mail: stuart@NO-SPAMlintel.co.uk