August 31, 2004 at 3:13 pm
We are currently running a web front-end with a SQL back-end on a quad processor (4 x 900Mhz) machine. Bottlenecks on the current system are processor and disk I/O.
The database is running in a RAID 10 array and I do not see much improvement in disk I/O.
We would like to save some money and migrate to a dual processor (2 x 2700Mhz) machine.
Has anybody done a similar migration?
I it a huge mistate to go from a quad processor to dual processor system?
Thanks,
jstalcup
September 1, 2004 at 2:38 am
Most modern boxes will come with hyperthreading so you'll almost get a 4 way upgrade.
I did a similar upgrade, for different reasons, and queries which took over an hour ran in seconds.
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September 1, 2004 at 2:59 am
Not to mention the HUGE licensing savings if you are doing per processor licensing.
I'm just going through the process at the moment, moving from a Quad P3-Xeon 700 Mhz to a Dual P4-Xeon 3.2 Ghz
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