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[Mike Schwartz (PC Support)]

> In my experience, many, many people (I'd almost say most) will toss CPU
> and
> RAM at a system without even looking at system performance on a subsystem
> level to find out where their bottlenecks are.  I'd say probably 95%+ of

     This can work both ways.  I've spent most of my spare time over the
past several months trying to speed up some filePro processes that weren't
running fast enough to service the web front end quickly enough to suit the
users.  I met with some success, getting some processes to run 5 to 10 times
faster, but they were still too slow.  

     Then the customer upgraded their 5-year old server to a dual Xeon box
with 4 gigs of RAM, and now the filePro web transactions run about 100 times
as fast as they did on the old box.  

    The box might be "loafing" down to a 0.01 workload most of the time, but
there are still instantaneous bursts where even this NEW computer isn't as
fast as we would like it. 

    The really depressing part is that the cost of the new box was probably
a LOT less than the time I billed out to them on this issue over the past
several months...

Mike Schwartz