From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 13:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icebox.venux.net (icebox.venux.net [216.120.166.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2406F37BA40 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mitch@venux.net) Received: from doot2 (pm2m37.gr.egl.net [208.163.5.237]) by icebox.venux.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3843D26202; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:42:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001d01bfbb89$36965a00$0300000a@doot.org> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: "Chris Phillips" Cc: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:40:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh, one more thing.. Why would I need XEON processors? The only differenced between those and other PIII's is the full speed cache (and more of it usually), right? *shrug* not really sure. The motherboards say they support PIII/XEON, so I was wondering what your logic was behind what you said. As far as the database using all 4 processors, any threaded program *could* use them, couldn't they? *shrug* I'm a total newbie with multi-processor systems, I've never had anything big enough to need one so some of what I said could be totaly wrong.. Please, feel free to school me :-) -Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Phillips To: Mitch Vincent Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP > 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