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From: dwc@homxc.UUCP (Malaclypse the Elder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Making 3B2/310 faster
Keywords: disks memory
Message-ID: <3895@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 20:38:10 GMT
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well, if you are cpu bound, then you are sunk.
but if you are disk bound, then getting more memory
may help...provided that you also increase the amount
of memory dedicated to system buffers.  this may or may
not help depending on the nature of your database accesses.

a previous poster suggested sar(1).  this is really useful
in determining what your bottlenecks truly are.  i would
do a serious look before making a guess as to what you need
to do/get/etc.

danny chen
att!homxc!dwc