From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 23:56:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A3616A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:56:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127F343D64 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:56:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467BC5C94; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:56:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51852-02; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:56:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from [199.103.21.238] (pan.codefab.com [199.103.21.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 790BE5C46; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:56:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20060201195537.GA11816@storage.mine.nu> References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> <43E0DD60.8060208@mac.com> <20060201195537.GA11816@storage.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <56FF8C02-F1EC-47E8-ABCF-E69D7A517581@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:56:39 -0500 To: lars X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:56:45 -0000 On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:55 PM, lars wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> If you're buying new hardware, pretty much anything has enough CPU >> to handle the >> reader side; the spamfiltering and virus scanning will be more CPU- >> intensive. >> Dual-3GHz Xeon's with 2GB of RAM? Your normal candidates, Dell, >> HP, IBM, all >> have reasonably similar models (PowerEdge 28x0, HP DL370/380, etc) >> which will do just fine for this sort of thing. > I'd go for an Opteron system, they have a lot more (3-4 times) > I/O than Xeon systems and they're cooler. Yes, this is entirely reasonable advice; the Opteron platform is a good choice as well. -- -Chuck