On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:08:48AM -0800, Orion Henry wrote:
> * Since most of what I am doing is inserts I will assume that the disk
> will be my bottleneck over anything else.  Is this correct?

Recent personal experience has sold me on hardware RAID controllers
and lots of RAM.  Dell's relatively low-end PERC/2 (which is an AMD
MegaRAID) on FreeBSD improved our create-and-populate scripts by at
least an order of magnitude.
-- 
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