Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM

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Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> Unfortunately, LINUX is not an option at this time. We looked into it; there
> is no *NIX expertise in the enterprise. However, I have raised this issue in
> various forums before, and when pressed no one was willing to say that "*NIX
> *DEFINITELY* outperforms Windows" for what my client is doing (or if it did
> outperform Windows, that it would outperform so significantly that it
> merited the move).
>
> Was this incorrect? Can my client DEFINITELY expect a significant
> improvement in performance for what he is doing?
>
> DISK subsystem reports: SCSI/RAID Smart Array E200 controller using RAID 1.
>

Based on the hardware config you mention, it sounds to me as if you put
all your money in the wrong basket (e.g; way too much ram and cpu / not
enough IO).

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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