Oops. My memory of this is certainly faulty then...
But it was a 386-class machine with a lot of memory (heck, it
may have been 16M, now that I'm doubting my memory) that beat
out a Pentium-class machine with nearly no memory.
From: kpielorz%tdx.co.uk@Internet on 03/19/99 09:49 AM
To: Derick H Siddoway/TC/TRS/American Express@AMEX
cc: scottm%phoenix.net@Internet, mysql%lists.mysql.com@Internet
Subject: Re: fastCPU vs moreRAM
Derick H Siddoway wrote:
> As an extreme case, a couple of years ago I ran some informal
> tests on a 386sx with 128MB of RAM versus a pentium200 with 8MB
> of RAM, and the 386 won almost every time.
You sure that was a 386sx? - They only had 24 bit address busses = 2^24 = 16Mb
of RAM max... :-(
I still agree though - with most Databases more RAM = better... Most O/S's
(and even Mysql) provide performance monitors for watching what the machines
processes are doing (i.e. excessive swapping, disk access etc.)
-Karl
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