Re: How are CPU Speed and Overall CPW Related?

You are gonna hear this a LOT: "It depends"....

a 100 Mhz  machine runs a CPU bound
> program faster than a 200 Mhz machine, as delineated in my previous post.

Might I suggest, "Forget clock speed", 100mhz & 200mhz are different
numbers
but depending on the application, one "might" outrun the other one part
of the
time... I have seen very few CPU bound jobs in many years of this.

> If I upgraded my machine from 320 MB Ram to the maximum 832 MB, would an
> individual program run faster, even though the program used little memory?

It very well might run faster, since the machine has more memory, it
will
spread the joy out to all users, so all jobs could very well finish
earlier.

> Is there a governor on the CPU that might be adjusted by the addition of
> memory?  Sorry if this sounds rediculous.

You bet your template there is a governor(wildly misunderstood) that
balances
system resources and that same governor also "might" slow down certain
jobs.

You can perform some "minor" adjustments, but real tuning requires a lot
of
time and study by somebody who understands the results of performance
data.

Performance is black magic on a good day and in my opinion, very few
folks 
have a complete understanding of it(outside of the plant).
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---