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- From: markd@cup.hp.com (Mark_Donohoe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Justifying more memory
- Message-ID: <BuLEAr.C98@cup.hp.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 23:52:03 GMT
- References: <23265@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard
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- ACHHHHHHHH!
-
- If you plan to do compilations with Vue and Softbench you will need the memory.
- Ask your boss, how much is engineering time worth? In the situation
- described, you will swap, and swapping is expensive! If these nodes will be
- diskless, even worse to have to page over the network. I know you have no
- reason to believe HP when they say it's needed, (as they could just want you
- to buy memory...) BUT you will need it. You can always buy 3rd party memory
- cheaper (souldn't say this...but it's true).
-
- For example, I have a 720, stand alone, 64MB of memory, run Vue, Shared X,
- and Frame. Have lots of windows and am using 89% of my memory. So this
- might be comparable to you running vue and softbench...now do a compile....
- now watch a fast computer go slow.
-
- On our compile server we have 192MB of memory (750) with lots of disks spread
- out over a number of I/O cards. This is two fold....better I/O throughput
- and never want to swap! It works and the engineers are happy.
-
- It will be hard to find performance documentation, so good luck.
- --
- Mark Donohoe (markd@cup.hp.com), these are my views, NOT HP's.
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