On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
Do you run your 2650s with hyperthreading on? I found that slowed mine
down under load, but we never had more than a couple dozen users hitting
the db at once, so we may well have had a different load profile than
what you're seeing.
Yep. Turned off as per various recommendations on this list. The RAID card on this box is a PERC 3/DC. It is a very big disappointment. The Opteron based generic system totally outperforms this Dell box.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806
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