Re: CPU Power or bigger Cache?

Noons schrieb:

> Check out the 2Mb cache speed (is it same as CPU
> or is it local bus speed?). If it is same as CPU
> speed, you can expect a very significant difference
> in performance with the 2Mb cache. Like, twice as fast.

The cache speed is full CPU-speed.

> Is that important? Maybe not. What is your work load
> like? Lots of long batch runs? If so, then twice as fast
> may be VERY significant (half of 24 hours is still 12 hours!).
> If not and most of your workload is short interactive
> transactions, then the 2Mb cache will only help in
> scalability (half of 1/100 of a second is very hard to
> distinguish from 1/100 of a second!).

The work load is half half. We have a 8 hour working day, in this time there are only sgort interactive transactions, but in the other 16hours we run al lot of batches.

> Hopefully I'll have given you some idea of the sort
> of things to look out for.

Yes you have, thx!

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