Re: upgrading processors

From: CKGeier@nwc.edu > >We have a few days to spend the rest of our budget this year. With a >RS/6000 and two - 166 Mhz processors, one 5 Gig database spread across 6 >disks, would it be better with IDS 7.31UC3 to upgrade our two 166 MHZ to >two 332 MHZ or buy 2 more 166 MHZ for a total of four 166 MHZ processors? >Our load is mostly queries, I would say 60%, and 35% is updates and >inserts. 5% is compiling and misc. It depends. :-) Can't you benchmark them? The best would be to buy 4 fast CPUs... :-) That's one of the nice things about SGI's O2000, you can mix CPU speeds within one machine, really helps in situations like this. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com