RE: IFS Performance -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Chris Bipes wrote:

2. What else does your Win2K Pro box do?  Is it only serving up this one
file?  How much memory and what type of disk drive(s)?  Now go get a
dedicate AS400 just for file serving and turn off everything else.  Tune it
correctly and see if it performs as well as the PC server.  Let's compare
thing equally and fairly.

While a dedicated iSeries may well perform better, I don't really think that is the point. The reason for putting the files on the iSeries in the first place is consolidation. But if doing so ruins performance then consolidation is not the answer. If the iSeries purports to solve problems by cosolidating machines, it had better perform well when doing so! I am certainly not going to spend many thousands more to get a big enough iSeries to handle the additional load of this one task when I can spend a few hundred and get a linux box that will run circles around it.

James Rich

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