[ILUG] [slightly OT] processor speed gains...

[Brady, Padraig]

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> spend the money on memory or a good scsi controller and scsi 
> disks.. much
> better value for money..

I concur..
Any UNIX is heavily I/O (file) intensive and hence the bottelneck
will not be (usually) the processor speed. Get the fastest disk
and controller you can afford.
On that topic, has anyone tried RAID 0 on Linux?
Padraig.