Disk Drive Speed is "Always" the bottleneck on Read/Write, excluding anything that is cached in RAM and excluding the software mechanism that initiates the Read/Write.
So, you can "Never" have a sufficiently fast drive. You can probably glean sufficient metrics from Task Manager>Performance to determine the correct amount of RAM for your particular setup. If the Max RAM used routinely exceeds the physical available RAM, then stuff is being mapped to Disk as RAM and that is a "bad thing" (read "Slow Thing"). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:44 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - servers Hello, I was wondering, how important is hard drive speed on a server that has r:base running on in an r:tango fashion? What i was wondering about is on a select, does it go to the harddrive every time? Or does it load parts of the database into RAM for faster access or some other mechanism like that? Would more ram make up for a slower HD? Thank you! Alan --- RBASE-L ================================================ TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. ================================================
