Based on my limited experience, 64 bit and lots of RAM will help MonetDB a lot.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 3, 2007 5:43 PM, m h &lt;<a href="mailto:sesquile@gmail.com">sesquile@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Say one wanted to do some benchmarks for Monetdb. &nbsp; Here would be a<br>few questions:<br><br>&nbsp;* Does Raid 0+1 help more than RAM?
<br>&nbsp;* What about multi cores? &nbsp;Are they currently useful?<br>&nbsp;* Are big processor caches useful?<br>&nbsp;* What about 64 bit linux? &nbsp;Does that help or hurt?<br><br>Or here&#39;s another way to put it. &nbsp;If you had between $2-$5K to spend
<br>what hardware would you buy?<br>A bunch of PS3&#39;s ;)<br><br>Any input would be great?<br><br>thanks<br><br>matt<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper
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