Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:45:35 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: ke han <ke.han@redstarling.com> Cc: freebsd-questions Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4 core Opteron performance Message-ID: <E29106A0-2908-4B46-B351-77F5BBE52401@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <943C8D5E-40D8-46DF-9290-1D8B0E0733CC@redstarling.com> References: <943C8D5E-40D8-46DF-9290-1D8B0E0733CC@redstarling.com>
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--Apple-Mail-33-623825989 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Oct 21, 2006, at 2:29 AM, ke han wrote: > I realize this is a bit open-ended. But I need some advice anyway > as I need to make a final decision on using FreeBSD 6.1 on a > production server. > I have a new Sun x4100 server. 2 x dual core Opterons with 8 GB > RAM. I need to run MySQL 5, a single threaded HTTP server, and a > few other single threaded daemons. > This server will have lots of long living sockets for one of the > single threaded servers. Other than that, its not outside normal > usage bounds. > I would like feedback on overall performance from anyone who has > used FreeBSD 6.1 with hardware similar to this. I'm not a guy who > cares about getting the last 10% of performance out of a server. I > am happy to trade performance for maintainability and a little > peace of mind. I have a dual opteron 2.0ghz (not dual core) with 4GB ram running 6.1. It ran a very busy mysql 4 server (feeding three other dedicated apache server machines), plus it runs a few FrontBase databases that are not so busy (low -- med low usage), and about 30 instances of apache (ie, min of 30 jails, each running their own apache) and a couple of jails with roxen serving webpages, plus a bind daemon, a moderately busy exim mta, courier imap and pop daemons, and some other assorted stuff, like a bunch of java based WebObjects instance and some db stuff (like some low use mysql 4/5 etc). It rarely broke much of a heavy sweat in normal usage. The super busy mysql 4 server is now gone and the machine rarely even sweats at all now (all the rest is still there). I would google on x4100 and FreeBSD or search the archives for any machine-specific issues. I kind of remember some issues with some sort of Sun servers. best Chad > > btw, I'm not tried to start another "FreeBSD has poor SMP" flame-fest. > > any thoughts? > thanks, ke han --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net --Apple-Mail-33-623825989--
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