Larry Baddock wrote:

>
> ...This means that you need round about 2 CPU's to keep 1 disk busy. Adding
> more CPU's is EXPENSIVE. Adding disks and striping them is unbelievably
> cheap.
>... I just don't fancy the idea that a simultaneous insert of 10
> blobs from clients can max out my CPU. There are already enough latency
> problems when the CPUs hit the wall.

While not disagreeing with that argument in general, ordinarily the
compression and decompression would happen on the client, which probably
has under utilized CPU.


Regards,


Ann