Re: Performances with new Intel Core* processors

[Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:

> For a database system, however, processors hardly ever are the main  
> bottleneck, are they? So you should probably go for a set of "fast  
> processors" from your favorite supplier and focus mainly on lots of  
> memory and fast disks. Whether that employs Opterons or Xeon  
> Woodcrest (no other Xeons are up to that

No, but it *does* matter how fast said processor can sling the memory  
around, and in my experience, the opterons have been much better at  
that due to the efficiency of the memory transport layer.

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