Blue Cuenca said:
> Hi,
>
> IMHO, you shouldn't upgrade. Buy another machine and have your DB server
> run off
> in the other machine. So even if your DB eats up your CPU, your LTSP
> isn't affected.
> You could even use a P3 to run your DB server, if you have some lying
> around unused.
>
> Further, I don't believe the problem is in your hardware. If you can, you
> should do
> something about your queries that "run for about 7 minutes". What kind of
> queries
> does that one department do? against what server? I've seen pretty heavy
> DB apps
> (mapping/gis) running on P3 (Firebird/interbase DB) but they never seem
> to take that long.
>
> But, what do I know, am just a newbie here. (",)
>
> Blue
>
actually i can easily separate the application server to a 400Mhz 128MB
K6-2 which when i tried before run nicely naman.
the queries that run are for trial-balancing of student accounts.
how much ram was the mapping/gis database? and why did you use
firebird/interbase db?
thanks for your answers
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