Hi Helen,

What's going on with this guy?
If you've got a single process, running a serialised tasks, more CPU's are
just gonna waste time...or not?

Perhaps I should just sit back and watch...

Nige.

>
> Thank you David,
> This is the type of responce we needed.
> The problem with the task we are doing is that it is HUGE.
> It takes lots of minute steps that each take microseconds,
> but they add up to hours/days and they need to be done
> in sequential order.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, David Johnson
> <d_johnson@c...> wrote:
> > I think we need more info to provide meaningful feedback.
> >
> > If the bottleneck is really at the hardware level, then you want to
> go
> > to at least a 64 bit Opteron box with gigabit SAN connectivity and
> as
> > many CPU's as you can profitably use.
> >
> > If your process is queueable and you are running a multi-CPU box
> then
> > running the receiving process on a separate thread from the write
> > process will allow the queue to buffer spike loads and maximize
> > throughput
> >
> > What throughput are you experiencing? What hardware do you currently
> > have?
> >
>
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