[rt-users] Hardware Config

[Jesse Vincent]

> I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM
> and processing power is the speed of disk access.  He mentioned using RAID
> 5 in a follow-up post.  That's fine, but are these IDE or 15k SCSI drives?
> Faster drives should always speed up database performance.

At 8 gigs of RAM on a well-tuned system, most of what RT is pulling out 
of the database should always be cached in memory.  If MySQL is going to
disk on every query, the game's over and you're better off sobbing
quietly into a stiff drink than getting faster disks.

-j