Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

Christoph Rohland
2002-01-17T08:19:25Z

Hi Chris,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Chris Chabot wrote:
>
>> Test hardware:
>> 4 way Dell, 4 GB physical RAM, SCSI/RAID subsystem,
>> DB runs on FS.
>
> Can we first make sure that the other factors dont plat a rol in
> this benchmark? I have a couple (14+) Dell servers here, and i know
> for a fact that most of their RAID systems are heavely borked in the
> performance department.

We run these tests regularly on different hardware - We have hardware
from Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM and FSC.

All tests so far showed the same overall performance tendencies.

Greetings
Christoph