Wesley,

Unless your current system is very much CPU bound, you may not see much of an improvement with the CPU upgrade alone. Over the years I've found that the application and database design is a major factor in overall performance and it can be hard to overcome with hardware upgrades. But if you are upgrading your discs and adding memory along with the CPU upgrade, you should see a significant improvement if the application doesn't limit everything. Is your system running decently at this time?
 
John Bawden 
Homestead3000 Consulting 
MPE Forever



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Subject: [HP3000-L] performance measurement

I'm doing an analysis to possibly upgrade our production 959KS/100 system to a 979KS/200 and I see the performance metric chart that tells me we go from a 4.6 to 14.6. Does anyone have or know where I can get a general idea what the increase represents? for instance, does each whole number (like 4.0 to 5.0) represent a general percentage increase in performance? I know it varies from one shop to another, so I'm just looking for a general guideline or personal experience like a job that used to take 10 hours to run now only takes 7 hours. The "personal experience" part of this may not even be appropriate, in that the upgrades may not be close to the metrics I am looking at.
I know this may be a tough question to answer, but thought I'd at least give it a try. 
TIA!
Wesley Setree

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