From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 3:26:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E860014E25 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 03:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA14072 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:24:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37F09769.824A745C@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:24:41 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello to all "satanic" fellows :-) I am considering to set up an X-terminal server running FreeBSD, with four Pentium III Xeon processors and 512MB-1GB RAM. This machine should service about 40 simultaneous X-users (running Netscape, Wordperfect, editors, LaTeX... mainly interactive use). I know that FreeBSD's SMP support is limited by the fact that the kernel is a big critical section, but in any case I would love to hear any experiences from people using similar configurations in a "many X-users" environment. With respect to the server, I like the Dell PowerEdge 6300. Does FreeBSD run trouble-free on this machine? Does anybody know? Of course, I am open to any suggestions :-) TIA, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message