Re: More processors or more MHz?

My general preference is to prefer fewer, but faster processors over more slower ones. Any single threaded activity will run at the speed of a single CPU, and even w/ V7, some things just don't parallelize well. Also, I tend to favor whatever basic CPU provides the best performance per dollar at the time I have to buy (keeping future growth guesstimates in mind). Typically, this means one of the vendors latest couple of generations of CPU technology. Greg Ofer Inbar wrote: > > I'm trying to price an HP9000 K-series for an Informix database, and > I'm not sure how the tradeoffs work out. For example, would Informix > be happier with a single 180MHz processor or a pair of 120MHz's? Are > there issues about how the data is going to be used that would tip the > balance one way or the other, and if so, what should I be looking at? > > (Informix OnLine 7.22) > > -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu > -- The Left Bank Operation -- lbo@leftbank.com http://www.leftbank.com/ > Romkey's Law: all unanimous decisions are wrong. Proof: "They can't ALL > be right. So if they're all saying the same thing, it must be wrong."