> Tunning is somewhat of a black art to get the right balance. If you have to > make a choice, buy fewer processors, faster disks, and as much RAM as the > board will handle. Wow. I'd buy more RAM and processors, and maybe skimp a *little* on the disks. The RAID array in my machine is made up of some 9-gig Quantum Atlas 4's that I bought for something like $80 each, far from being state-of the art: But with all of the RAM, the disk lights only blink *occasionally*. The number of drives makes up for the lower transfer rate of each individual unit, and the disk cache (both on the controller and from the kernel) make up for the latency. steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
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