upgrading server

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:20:01PM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
> Nice to learn that filePro is more dependent on HD speed that 
> it is on RAM - I did not know this?  I guess that this should be
> true for some tasks not all.  I recall a message where Ken
> described how filePro uses RAM/CACHE to do some things.

I'm not sure how you "learned" that from his posting, which was
entirely a question, but...

> We have an old proliant 7000 with 18 HDs & 4 Xeon 500Mhz and 1.0G
> RAM with an average load of 110 users and the CPUs barely blink.  
> When we upgraded from a Quad 200Mhz, we found that the speed went
> up drastically.  

Of course you did.  The PPro200, though a nice chip in it's day, is
about 5 generations behind the PIII-Xeon, both in horsepower, and (most
important) in RAM capacity.

Cheers,
-- jra
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