[rt-users] Hardware Config

[Mathew]

Can I sob quietly into a hard drink just for the sake of having the drink?

Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 

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