I don't have the exact specs but I know they are SCSI and likely 10k. I don't know the seek times though.
[email protected] wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Mathew wrote: >>> We presently have our RT installation running on the same hardware as > the database: an Intel 1550 box with 4 cores of about 2.5GHz each and 8GB >>> RAM. We've been plagued with speed issues even after upgrading to this. > We realized initial performance gains when we installed to the new >>> hardware about two and a half years ago but eventually that faded. > > Jesse Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can you tell us about how you've tuned mysql, how many concurrent users >> you have working with RT, how many tickets you have in RT, etc? >> >> No matter how beefy a server you've got, if you don't spend some time >> tuning mysql, it will assume it's running on a single-core Pentium 133 >> with 128 megs of RAM which is also your primary mail server. And the >> performance you see will reflect that. > > I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM > and processing power is the speed of disk access. He mentioned using RAID > 5 in a follow-up post. That's fine, but are these IDE or 15k SCSI drives? > Faster drives should always speed up database performance. > James > -- Keep up with my goings on at http://feeds.feedburner.com/theillien_atom _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [email protected] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
