Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>I'm afraid it's your eyes, or mine are really bad. The first computer
>has less memory and is faster.
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Hi Ann,

:-)))

Now I get you you are saying...

I meant the second computer to be faster because it has a greater clock
speed, and you are saying the first computer to be faster since it
performs the operations 10 times faster... So I think it's not my eyes
that are bad, but how I interpreted what you say...

see you !

>>I think one thing should be considered is if the OS are caching the
>>database in the same fashion on both computers.
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>Caching wouldn't lead to one classic server running while the other
>sleep. I'm betting that's a threading problem and involves the lock
>manager.
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Sure. I tried to say if for some reason the faster computer could have
the DB on cache (by the OS) while the slower are reading from the disk
without file system cache, my comment have nothing to do with the second
computer CPU stay at 0% usage.

>>Another thing, I have read that Gentoo performs better
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>And Fedora Core 1 ...
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>Cheers,
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>
>Ann
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see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
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