Re: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-14 Thread Ware Adams
Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz with the same amount of RAM. I have a few specific tables with several million rows of data, and it takes quite a long time to process that data on my current server. Does

RE: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-14 Thread Jon Frisby
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4 Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz with the same amount of RAM. I have a few specific tables with several

Re: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-14 Thread daniel
well the obvious difference between a celeron and a p4 is the cpu cache, celerons are good for home linux dev box's, i have 2 now but one only has 32meg and is really slow on the queries but they are cheap and do the job i i rebuilt one and built another box for about 180 AUD :D , i also have a

Re: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-14 Thread daniel
scuse the ignorance are u saying high cpu usage is better used on one query or better be freed up for other queries ? ram is always an issue as the queries get buffered Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz

Re: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-10 Thread colbey
The fact that you have several millions of rows may indicate that you have an I/O problem, not CPU.. do some benchmarking. and perhaps the solution is going to (if not already) SCSI drives, or some kind of raid configuration (recommend raid 0+1) Or if you want to keep costs low.. perhaps using

Re: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-10 Thread mos
At 07:00 PM 8/6/2003, you wrote: Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz with the same amount of RAM. I have a few specific tables with several million rows of data, and it takes quite a long time to process that data on my current server.

Re: DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-07 Thread Ware Adams
Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz with the same amount of RAM. I have a few specific tables with several million rows of data, and it takes quite a long time to process that data on my current server. Does

DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-06 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz with the same amount of RAM. I have a few specific tables with several million rows of data, and it takes quite a long time to process that data on my current server. Does anyone have a good idea of