On 5/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, I have some new hardware money from NSF. One options is > > that I could upgrade the RAM on sage.math to 128GB. Any thoughts? > > I'd propose getting a number of fast internal hard drives for the > machine, rather than abusing those LaCie disks -- they're really > good for storage, but I think that they create a pretty significant > bottleneck during computations that write to disk. (I cannot > substantiate this claim)=
Good idea -- actually, I already plan to get some fast internal disks this summer (actually I just wrote to request a quote a few minutes ago). The cost of several fast internal disks is negligible in comparison to a 64GB RAM upgrade. 64GB of high density ECC RAM isn't cheap. > I mean, hey. Memory is great. But buying more memory > doesn't solve a leakage problem -- if Apache is eating all > the memory on the machine, and you double the memory... > then it will happily eat all of that, too. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that I thought buying RAM was a solution to the mean leak issue. It's just that discussing memory leaks reminded me that I'm considering the option of purchasing a memory upgrade, so I brought that up in the same email. I just checked and after running for a day apache isn't using an unusual amount of memory. What happened before may have been an anomaly that resulted from me restarting apache a few times when reconfiguring it a couple of days ago. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
