Whenever we are designing a new modification, we will not only need to design to address the defined needs, but also to provide a solution that processes efficiently. An inefficient solution carries unnecessary ongoing costs. Many of the things that we can do to design an efficient solution are relatively simple:
- Properly configure system and workstation software (often overlooked)
- Make sure networks can handle the expected load (with capacity to spare)
- Have enough server memory to avoid using virtual memory, since virtual memory = disk
- Most of all, do everything reasonable to minimize disk I/O
