O$4 vs O$3 performance
Kelly Burgess
kellyb at montana.com
Wed Apr 29 05:49:38 EDT 2009
Hi Mary,
>server is a G5, 1.6GHz with 1.5GB memory
According to this
http://www.datamemorysystems.com/_apple_info/Apple_G5_1.6GHz_Memory_1188.asp
and confirmed in the MacTracker app, that machine should have DIMMs
installed in matched pairs, so having 1.5gigs is suspect. The
mismatching works but has a performance penalty.
If it was me, I'd go get four matched 1gig DIMMs for $150 and max out
the server RAM. That'd make them happy while you investigate your
code for bottlenecks. As far as I know there's no significant
performance penalty built into Studio 4.x compared to 3.x. I can't
speak to ODB issues, haven't used it. But faster disks and more RAM
always help. A two year old iMac would out-perform this G5 with a
faster processor and a 3gig ATA bus vs the 1.5gig bus in the G5.
Kelly
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