On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:56:22AM -0700, Van wrote: > > I can't imagine a G4 would be disk bound relative to an Intel machine, unless > there is something very wrong with the disk or controller. Also, you might want > to defrag your disk on the Mac. > > G4s have much more disk bandwidth than any Intel I've ever seen. Almost as much > as my DEC Alpha. >:)
Huh? CPUs have little if anything to do with disk I/O operations. I'd bet you $1000 that a 1 CPU Pentium II with the right disk subsystem could easily outrun a much "faster" 4 CPU Pentium III system with a single IDE disk in it. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.15-Yahoo-SMP: up 53 days, processed 2,004,157,804 queries (431/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
