From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Feb 13 13:52:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [206.168.13.65]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE674683 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA45725; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:52:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from smp@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Message-Id: <200002132152.OAA45725@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current hardware choices. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:31:35 MST." <20000213143135.A8161@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:52:37 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 14:28:42 -0700, Steve Passe wrote: > ... > > I was just looking at that server on the intel site: OCPRF100, but > > I couldn't find it listed on any of the web price engines. > > Yeah, I looked around for a Profusion server from some of the clone-type > places, but I wasn't able to find it. All I found were the 4-way SMP > servers. It looks like you have to go with one of the big vendors to get > a Profusion box. I just priced out the Dell version: $51K for 8 550/1024K! So I guess its an SC450NX for me... Now to decide just home much ransom to pay intel for increased cache size. Has anyone seen any benchmarks that quantify the effects of different L2 cache sizes in SMP systems? -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message