On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:07:17PM -0400, Ron Peacetree wrote: > A minor point to be noted in addition here is that most DB servers under load > are limited by their physical IO subsystem, their HDs, and not the speed of > their RAM.
I think if that were the only consideration we wouldn't be seeing such a dramatic difference between AMD and Intel though. Even in a disk-bound server, caching is going to have a tremendous impact, and that's essentially entirely bound by memory bandwith and latency. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
