Can I sob quietly into a hard drink just for the sake of having the drink? Jesse Vincent wrote: > >> 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. > > At 8 gigs of RAM on a well-tuned system, most of what RT is pulling out > of the database should always be cached in memory. If MySQL is going to > disk on every query, the game's over and you're better off sobbing > quietly into a stiff drink than getting faster disks. > > -j >
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