RE: Accessing a file in memory

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're right.  Basing a purchasing decision on a one time peak is probably 
not good.  But, to come up with reasons why constantly running at 70-90% is 
acceptable when you should be upgrading is not good either.





RaikovL@mki.com.au on 07/20/2000 08:38:48 PM
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No if he has extra $ to spend. The trouble is a decision like that is very
often taken just on the basis of the peak CPU utilisation. 

Lo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:17 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: Accessing a file in memory
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> <SNIP>
> There is nothing wrong with 90% CPU utilization as such. It only becomes a
> problem when app.. 70% is used by response-time critical jobs. 
> <ENDSNIP>
> 
> There's also nothing wrong with a boss which upon noticing a system
> hitting 
> 40% of CPU, and planning for future growth, doubles the number of
> processors 
> and adds a ton of memory.
> 
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