On May 12, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Richard Elling wrote:
CPU cycles and memory bandwidth (which both can be in short
supply on a database server).
We can throw hardware at that :-) Imagine a machine with lots
of extra CPU cycles [ ... ]
Yes, I've heard this story before, and I won't believe it this
time. ;-)
Seriously, I believe a database can perform very well on a CMT system,
but there won't be any "extra" CPU cycles or memory bandwidth, because
the demand for transaction rates will always exceed what we can supply.
Anton
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