Re: Informix 5 Performance Issues

Jon Perelstein <loki173@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> wrote: :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. If you have time for it may be a Compaq machine with 8 200 MHz (or may be it will be a higher clock rate at the time) Pentium Pro (or later processors) will represent a significant upgrade from what you have now? Compaq is supposed to introduce such a machine this summer or fall. Is it heretic to suggest that a "PC architecture" server will be faster than a Sequent? May be, may be not. Compaq have done a lot to their designs lately, and I would expect a very good performance from such a machine. I would of course run Unix on it for your purposes, and expect a very competitive price. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org