VM Resources

On 4/15/2012 11:22 AM, Justin Hansen wrote: >> Of course, we can always go back and optimize code, but at some point >> you reach a point of diminishing returns. Focusing our programming >> resources on less than 0.1% of the code... wouldn't it just be less expensive to throw some (virtually free) additional processing power at the problem. How can that possibly hurt the situation? From the point of view of bumping up the hardware, you are correct; setting higher limits doesn't consume more resources of and by itself.  And unless they're running close to the limits on the VM server, it won't even affect other VMs. I've also seen though some impressive gains made by super-geek DBAs that no mere mortals could see.  The question I guess is where to spend the $ in the most cost-effective way. --Ben -- Ben Conner              ben@webworldinc.com Web World, Inc.         888-206-6486 or PO Box 1122             480-704-2000 Queen Creek, AZ 85142