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To: Prognosticator who wrote (42753)	4/6/2001 12:51:49 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Prog - re: "one network packet coming in, or one byte read from a disk, makes the processor speed completely irrelevant" Not true at all. TPC benchmarks, which have very high rates of both, are CPU bound, not I/O bound. Lots of concurrent processes and a number of clever background mechanisms which allow the central processes to execute in RAM make the I/O overhead almost invisible. Your statement is only true when there is a single process which hangs on I/O - not something that happens in any modern server workloads.