From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 13:25: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.selkie.org (cr296652-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.115.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B3937BBCE for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by shell.selkie.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28258; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:28:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Phillips To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP In-Reply-To: <000d01bfbb86$31c57860$0300000a@doot.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You will need 4 Xeon processors to do the 4 way SMP. I do not believe there is a database that runs native on FreeBSD and not through emulation what would even be able to take advantage of all that processing power. There seems to be very little documentation on FreeBSD's ability to run Oracle. Perhaps the money that you were going to invest in processing power would be better spent on some raid or ram. -Chris Phillips On Thu, 11 May 2000, Mitch Vincent wrote: > We're getting ready to put some serious money into a new database server and > wanted some opinions on a few possible hardware choices. > > First, is anyone using FreeBSD (4.0) with 4 x86 processors? If so, what > motherboard are you using? > > Is anyone using any of the AMI (www.ami.com) Quad motherboards? > > Thanks!! > > -Mitch > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message