[rt-users] RT 3.0 Speed

[Dean Kao]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:19:49PM -0400, Nicolae P. Costescu developed
a new theory of relativity and: 
> You will see a big benefit from paying $400 for a motherboard/cpu/ram upgrade.
> On a single CPU p4/2.4GHz, with 512MB of DDRAM you will have about 3x your 
> memory bandwidth, and 5x your CPU speed. This will make a BIG difference. 
> Your current SMP system is a shared bus architecture, and that shared RAM 
> bus is slow compared to the memory controller on Intel DDRAM motherboards 
> (i845 and above).
> 
> If you want specific recommendations for a particular mobo/cpu/ram email me 
> directly and I'll be glad to spec it for you.
> 

As much as I'd like to believe that hardware is the main cause of all
this, RT2.0 is 2x faster than RT3.0 for the main page.  If it was slower
for a search, that's fine.  Just merely getting to the homepage is the
big killer.  

Disabling quicksearch has been thought of but is not the 
preferred option because we want that information.  This is why I
suggested caching the quicksearch.  I will try uprading mason
today to see if there is any improvement.  I only remember MySQL 4.0
as the recommended performance booster (which took the login from
60 seconds to 10).

Dean