Ted > > But, in general, I think the law of diminishing returns kicks in at > around 6-8. >
Maybe true when PG are only using 4-8 spindles, but with wide striping and large volumes a poor cache hit workloads would get a lot of benefit from 32 spindles concurrently handling IO for a volume. Ron ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

