Having the fastest memory that is available in your system is not as important as having enough memory in your system. Without sufficient memory, you can choke your whole system and bring your server to a crawl (or even crash).
Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolas MONNET (Tech)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Helmut Apfelholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:45 AM Subject: RE: Serwer Hardware p4 or pIII ? > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:23, Helmut Apfelholz wrote: > > --- Simon Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > MySQL uses memory and HDD the most and so processor > > > speed is not so > > > important. > > > > Well, processor speed is also important, on some of > > our servers processors are almost 100% occupied. > > If your bottleneck is memory speed, you will see 100% CPU usage even if > the CPU actually spend 99% of its time idle, waiting for data to come > in. > > I'm not too up to date on the latest RAM technology, but I hear there's > several types of DDR, the most expensive one being significantly faster. > Or is it? > > Anyone care to share some insight on this? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
