Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:58:00 -0400
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 
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Cc: Carlos Moreno <moreno_pg@mochima.com>
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On Tuesday 08 May 2007 20:20, Carlos Moreno wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> CPU is unlikely your bottleneck..  You failed to mention anything
> >> about your I/O setup.  [...]
> >
> > He also fails to mention if he is doing the inserts one at a time or
> > as batch.
>
> Would this really be important?  I mean, would it affect a *comparison*??
> As long as he does it the same way for all the hardware setups, seems ok
> to me.
>

Sure.  He looks i/o bound, and single inserts vs. batch inserts will skew 
results even further depending on which way your doing it. 

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Robert Treat
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