[Hidden-tech] finding systems to test on

[Daniel Fried]

For clarification.

I have good desktop tower systems right now.  Core2Duo processors, 4GB RAM,
SATA drives.  I would like to look at some modern enterprise level hardware,
4 or more cores, SCSI or SAS drives in RAID configuration.

The application is currently coming reasonably close to maxxing both app
server cores and is not generally topping more than 60% of one core of the
DB server.  I am pretty sure that there is a problem with disk IO speed, but
need to run some tests to see how the application scales faster disk IO.  As
part of that, I would like to see what happens to performance as I add
cores.

Thanks

-Dan

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Fried <frieddan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a resource intensive application that I need to test for performance
> scaling with hardware, specifically I want to be able to get a better idea
> of where my bottlenecks are by testing the application on systems with
> faster processors/more cores and database performance with faster drives.
>
> Can anyone give me some ideas on where I might be able to find some systems
> I can test on?  I have a .Net application that talks to a MySQL database.
> The current dev and qa systems require Windows for the application, but can
> run MySQL on either Windows (same or different system) or Linux.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dan
>
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