Rita Berkowitz wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
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>> Disk I/O is VASTLY slower than ram access. Worse, many programs
>> seem to access 'scratchpad' files in a terribly inefficient,
>> 'byte-wise' manner making things terribly slow. The best solution is
>> to load the computer with all the ram it can handle, and get one with
>> a quad-core (or two of them), and a fast HD. Frankly, Windows does a
>> terrible job of swapping ram to and from disk.
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> Ron, that's what I've been saying. Our boy -hh has some serious I/O
> problems. Had he been using a decent SCSI RAID array he would be
> offloading
> out of the old scratch disc so fast he'd barely break a GB of used
memory.
> And yes, I also suggested SMP. It's only the people that are using
> substandard hardware and don't have a clue are the ones blindly and
> clueless
> recommending throwing more memory at the problem.
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> Rita
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Adding RAM is not really very expensive these days, at least not
compared to SCSI RAID arrays.
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