Is this possible?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting rikona <rikona at sonic.net>:

> Hello Dave,
>
> Monday, October 3, 2016, 9:13:33 AM, Dave wrote:
>
>> Quoting Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>
>>> On 3 October 2016 at 06:57, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> AMD 4or6 core processor [have a 6 core]
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> Apart from at the very low end, Intel is faster than AMD and has been
>>> since the Core 2 Duo range.
>
>> Top on my AMD box shows 92% idle, can Intel wait faster?
>
> You bring up an interesting point. My large data runs, with many disk
> accesses, might actually be IO bound, so processor speed may not be
> the most important factor.
>
> If I put the data on SSDs, though, will that very expensive storage
> have a short life because of the VERY intensive data access required?
>
> --
>
>  rikona

I think you'd need to profile your usage. When you are running your  
i/o bound processes, what does top show? or sar? iotop?

D

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