More often than not as an administrator of anything be it in the capacity of a Systems Admin or Database admin, one major concern is the system's overall performance. High latencies and large turnaround times are enough to make your life a living hell.
In most cases we want to get highly speced hardware for our systems. The higher the specs the better we always assume. Albeit this is true it is not always the case. There has to be a point at which the line is drawn.
One aspect many tend to overlook is that regardless of what hardware you have got, configuration of your system plays a key role in determining the overall performance.
For example you may have 4.0GHz Dual core procesor, 5GB of RAM on your server, You have implemented one set of RAID 10 onto which you have your databases and system file stored together ...... yet you cannot figure out why your otherwise decent machine is not performing........well helloooo your configuration is not optimal.
You simply cannot lump system file, your paging files and your database files all on one disk set stupidoh :-) !!!!
So its always good to go back to the basics.
Found the really great resource on tweaking your system's virtual memory and why you do what u do......... hope its a great read for you as it was for me :)
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