From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 00:53:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5825C16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:53:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [193.254.185.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D79343D45 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:53:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: (qmail 4033 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2005 00:53:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maximus) (85.186.64.88) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 5 Sep 2005 00:53:38 -0000 Message-ID: <02e501c5b1b4$5ed42c00$b47ba8c0@maximus> From: "ANdrei" To: "Manuel Rabade Garcia" References: <000101c5ac82$66f25290$b47ba8c0@maximus><20050829171305.GA70155@neptune.atopia.net><001e01c5ace5$f62c16e0$b47ba8c0@maximus><20050829222948.25b3993e@laptop.rabade.net><015101c5af37$4456d2d0$b47ba8c0@maximus> <20050901225534.3b513982@laptop.rabade.net> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 03:54:26 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building an older server X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:53:45 -0000 tks for your reply again. > Both processors have a very small amount of cache. Maybe the Duron can > be faster than your pair of Celerons, but the only way to know it is > benchmarking both systems with the applications that you want to run. maybe this is getting a bit offtopic, but what are the best benchmarks you would suggest? I'm looking for a disk benchmark, also. There is oe in the ports, that I found (sorry, forgot the name) and used, but it got me some weird results, with big differences at different runs... anything good to test on FreeBSD? I also have the option of using a Socket423 Intel P4 1.4GHz on a Asus board with 2x128MB RIMM... but this is all memory I can get on this board, I guess though the proc is far faster than the duron or the 2 celeron's, because of the RAM it'll run in all slower, right? On the other boards I get 768MB SDRAM... I'm asking mainly theoretical things here, as I won't be using the server in full load at the beginning, so I can't really test what the limits are, but it'll have peaks when doing some tasks from time to time, and that's why I want to check on what you think the best (fastest and most stable) option is. I decided to go for FreeBSD 6.x anyway, because of WPA-PSK... > I am not saying that your pair of Celerons are crap or something like > that, I just want to remark that the performance boast with a SMP > system isn't linear, spreading jobs across processors is also a job, > and can be very intensive :) yep, that's what I wanted to know, too, and what I thought about, too... ANdrei