Woops - bad typo in there. bugger...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Weeks [mailto:nweeks@...]
> Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2004 5:34 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com; Helen Borrie (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Re: Scale or tune firebird?
>
>
>
> 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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