Seems reasonably fast, but not really satisfied with disk performance -
which as you may expect is a bit of a bottleneck. Towards the end of an
IPL especially the disk utilization is pegged at 100% for maybe 10
minutes. I woudl STRONGLY advise adding at least one additional disk and
configuring for RAID-5, that way user data will be spread over 3 disk arms
instead of just one.
Users seemed pretty happy with it (it wasn't that bad once the IPL
completed in the background, but then they were coming from a model 200
with 16MB of memory running V3R2).
...Neil
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Subject
very low end i5 performance
Anyone care to comment on experiences
with very low end i5 520
Express Edition 1 w/500cpw,
1 gig memory
2 - 35 gig drives mirrored.
twinax console
30 gb 1/4 in cartridge tape
Would be running small office (10-20 users), webfaced rpg application,
as well as Apache webserver.
tia
jim franz
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