RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-20 Thread Damien McKenna
> -Original Message- > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The hd is an obvious bottleneck. If you really want to boost I/O, look into some of the good Opteron systems that use the nForce Professional chipsets, they have much better I/O than the comparable Intel x86 systems. Couple

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-19 Thread Russ
The point is with a web system, over 90% of the calls would be reads. Russ > -Original Message- > From: Mark A Kruger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:39 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > &g

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-19 Thread Mark A Kruger
AIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 16:21 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM I'm not so sure about that. Check wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#RAID_1 It states that with Raid 1 (mirror) the write speed is th

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-19 Thread Russ
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:55 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > >It states that with Raid 1 (mirror) the write speed is the same > > I cant see where it says that? > Maybe a case of temporary blin

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-19 Thread Russ
rate, and half the seek time. > -Original Message- > From: Kerry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:55 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > >It states that with Raid 1 (mirror) the write speed

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-19 Thread Kerry
1 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM I'm not so sure about that. Check wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#RAID_1 It states that with Raid 1 (mirror) the write speed is the same as a single disk, and the rea

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-19 Thread Russ
ually). Seek time is also halved. Russ > -Original Message- > From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:23 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > On 1/18/06, Baz <[EMAI

Re: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-18 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
/o even thinking twice -- more flexibility for either redundancy (RAID 1, 5, 10) or speed (RAID 0) > > -Original Message- > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:06 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-18 Thread Baz
Good call. -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM The hd is an obvious bottleneck. That's usually the slowest point in your system. I would use a SC

RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-18 Thread Russ
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:49 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > If I installed: >- CFMX7 Enterprise >- MySQL 5.0 > > On the following machine: > - Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE H

Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM

2006-01-18 Thread Baz
If I installed: - CFMX7 Enterprise - MySQL 5.0 On the following machine: - Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM Am I making good use of the hardware? Can both technologies fully utilize the CPU and RAM? Any obvious bottlenecks, perhaps add another GB of ram? Cheers, Baz