Greg,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kay [mailto:gkay@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:55 AM
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> Our hardware specs are: dual CPU opteron 252 with 16 Gb ram running
> SuSE Linux 10.1.
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> Typical usage is about 1 million transactions a day using about 150

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> 200 connections at a time (between 8am and 8pm). The server
> mostly sits at about 30-40% of capacity.

Does the Opteron have the equivalent of the Intel 'hyperthreading'?

Just curious, how long does it take for the backup/restore cycle on
your 25GB database? Do you see the backup or restore elapsed time
being wildly divergent from one day to the next? I've been tracking
those stats for over a year now, and can't explain what I see. I
would have expected a gradual increase in each as the database grows
(accounting for server load, of course), but that is not what I see.
I've been meaning to bring it up on this list for a while now.


Bob M..