RE: We've Added more memory...but I can't remember! -- MIDRANGE-L

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> On Behalf Of Charly Jones
> Subject: RE: We've Added more memory...but I can't remember!
>
> Most systems I have seen recently have lots and lots of memory and it
is
> being mostly wasted.  I can tell because they have an automatic tuner
> moving
> memory around like crazy - the faulting is still high - the bottleneck
is
> usually the disk resources (don't get me started on that topic) - the
CPU
> is
> not being fully utilized - and the solution to any performance problem
is
> to
> buy more CPU or more memory.

Charly,

If I understand your paragraph above, you are saying that a system with
a generous amount of memory, an underutilized processor, and a shortage
of disk arms will experience a high level of faulting.  Can you
elaborate on this a little (without getting started on the disk arm
topic too much ;-))?  I don't understand the technical underpinnings
here.  Or do you think that this in an artifact of the performance tuner
not directly related to the disk arms?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

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