Anjan,
> Other than the disks, I am curious what other people are using in terms
> of the horsepower needed. The Quad server has been keeping up, but we
> are expecting quite high loads in the near future, and I am not sure if
> just by having the disks on a high-end storage will do it.
Do a performance analysis of RH9. My experience with RH on Xeon has been
quite discouraging lately, and I've been recommending swapping stock kernels
for the RH kernel.
Of course, if this is RHES, rather than the standard, then test & talk to RH
instead.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco