Re: 520 Performance

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marko,

I suspect then as Kirk mentions it's mostly disk performance. Two drives 
just simply isn't enough for all but the simplest tasks.  We have sold 
the two mirrored drive configuration to a couple small customers. They 
were previously running on itty bitty AS/400s so even though to me they 
are slow the customers are very happy with performance.   We upgraded 
one customer from two drives mirrored to 4 drives mirrored and it was a 
day/night difference in performance. (100% more I/O bandwidth!)  I 
suggest that if you were to put only two mirrored drives in a 64 
processor i5-595 with 512 MB of memory you would get nearly identical 
performance to the 0.2 of a single processor in the express box.  (Yes I 
know 512MB in a 595 is an illegal configuration!!)   Kinda like trying 
to drain your swimming pool with a soda straw......

Marco Facchinetti wrote:

> Everything looks faster, but the most remarkable example is our package
> setup, it usually takes 90/100 minutes, on that machine only 20 minutes...
>
> But also compiling, browsing with pdm, client server activities are a lot
> faster. 
>
> I'm happy for our customer but we are supposed to have two horses instead of
> a mule and an horse.
>
> Marco
>
> --- Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>