Time to copy records

[Thiko]

If it takes 63150secs on a computer of power 496MHz to copy 1626826 records. How long will it take on a computer of 1600Mhz to copy the same number of records?

can someone show me some working so I can work it out myself next time.



Many Thanks.

Thiko!

 

[karluk]

I doubt that we have enough information to answer your question. Long running operations are typically "bound" by one of three factors: CPU speed, memory, or disk i/o. An operation that's CPU bound won't be significantly speeded up by adding more memory. You have to address the factor that's causing the bottleneck.

In your case it's a good bet that your operation is i/o bound. That's just a guess, but if it's true I would expect the copy to take about the same time on the faster computer.

 

[Thiko]

thanks for that.

the details i gave were just very skimpy.

i really want to know the maths involved/the method for working something similar out.

also the term copy was wrong we were builing context search indexes. like i say it was just for the mathematical method involved.

Many Thanks.

Thiko!