From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 15 16: 7:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1920C14D35 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:07:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA26137; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:07:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAhAaOZY; Wed Dec 15 17:07:16 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25886; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:07:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199912160007.RAA25886@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:07:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dscheidt@enteract.com, ragnar@sysabend.org, tlambert@primenet.com, noslenj@swbell.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991215010917.048dfae0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Dec 15, 99 01:12:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >The glue needed to build an N-way > >machine will always be less expensive than N uniprocessor boxes. > > Not so. The special chip sets are usually priced at a premium. I think this is because they work, and allow things like more than 2 PCI bus masters at a time, compared to many chipsets, whose arbitration logic fails over 2 PCI masters. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message