Re: Multithreading question

[Marcus G. Daniels]

> That sounds awfully like running out of DRAM and going into paging.   How much DRAM have you got, and have you tried more?  If you can't avoid 
> paging, you need a fast disk subsystem with plenty of cache.  Pentium 4 
> PCs are rather ordinary in this area because they only have 32bit 33MHz 
> PCI.
Motherboards like Tyan Trinity GC-SL (for Pentium 4, not even a Xeon) 
have PCI-X slots run 64 bits wide @ 133 Mhz.   With a SCSI RAID 
controller two  U320 SCSI channels you could do 640 MB/sec and still 
have bandwidth to spare.  Plain old bus-mastered PCI 2.2 can do 133 
MB/sec.  


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