Re: Insert performance

Chris,

> My expectations of a Netra wouldn't be terribly high, either; they
> seem to exist as a product so that people that need a cheap Sun box
> have an option.  They are mostly running IDE disk, and the latest
> IA-32 hardware is likely to have newer faster interface options.

Neither are ours ... we bought an array of 1U Netras as a dot-com closeout.
At $330 per machine including OS, they were a darned good deal, and with 4 of
them the redundancy makes up for the lack of individual server performance.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco