On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Do you run your 2650s with hyperthreading on? I found that slowed mine
> down under load, but we never had more than a couple dozen users
> hitting
> the db at once, so we may well have had a different load profile than
> what you're seeing.
>
Yep. Turned off as per various recommendations on this list. The RAID
card on this box is a PERC 3/DC. It is a very big disappointment. The
Opteron based generic system totally outperforms this Dell box.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806