Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:01:56 -0700 From: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb Message-ID: <3540B774.CAB68C0C@partsnow.com>
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I have spoken to several of my lower level salesman types at various companies, and they all could _immediately_ see the benefit to their companies of such a media circus as I'm proposing. (For those on -hardware, seek this thread in the -advocacy archives, I won't repeat it here) With that in mind, I'd like to solicit comments on what the best hardware (single CPU) we can get to give us the highest TCPIP network throughput. If you'll look at http://www.SPECbench.org, you'll see the disclosures for the systems Novell and others have used to achieve their performance. The key to this thing is maximum bandwidth, disk performance, and maximum intelligence on the IO channels. Even if we do it by using a gigabit card set and fiber, we're after exposure for FreeBSD and Apache, not necessarily long-lasting benchmark numbers. Once we have the system spec'd, I have no doubt I can get hardware, because it's very obvious that this will be an enormous bonanza for all major corporate sponsors. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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