On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:58, Neil D. McAliece wrote:
> 1GB of ECC registered RAM weighs in at under $300. The same ammount of DDR2
> RAM weighs in at under $200. In the scheme of things, whether or not
> practice software is using MSSQL should be pretty low down on the list of
> things to be stressed about.
The important bit people generally miss when they do this kind of arithmetics
is that these figures don't scale.
On 32bit architectures there is a hard limit at 4GB - on most mainboards in
fact 2GB RAM.
Many people who buy prefabricated ("branded") PCs will discover that their
memory slots are either already filled with (cheaper) RAM modules, or their
mainboards only gad 2 RAM slots to begin with.
So, unless you are prepared to shell out a *complete* PC for such bloatware
(including the emergency replacement spare for it!!) plus swallowing the
extra heat dissipation, power consumption, noise generation and
administrative extra work required indirectly by the bloatware, you should
rethink your strategy.
I don't know about MSSQL - all DBMS systems I know & use allow fine tuning of
memory allocation if not at run time then at least in the startup
configuration. But crappy end user or middleware applications rarely allow
such configuration, and poorly written crapware simply grabs whatever it can
get in terms of resources and the vendors then sooth the righteously outraged
customers with the bullshit argument that "RAM is cheap". Which it only would
be if it was scalable in that you could add unlimited amounts to your system.
Horst
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