Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:01:25 -0400 From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Message-ID: <002901bfbb94$744e36a0$0300000a@doot.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005111430580.8181-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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While I appreciate everyone's response (and I do, very much) no one actually answered either of my questions specifically. Will FreeBSD handle 4 processors? If so, is anyone on-list using FreeBSD with 4 (or more) processors. Thanks guys! -Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> To: Mitch Vincent <mitch@venux.net> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 5:33 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP > > > 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? > > This depends on the size of databases, but I personally would > rather run multiple machines with load sharing then quad or even dual > machines... because most of your load is going to be on the hard > drives/SCSI subsystem.... You'd also have built in redundancy, and it'll > be cheaper in the long run, easier to upgrade. > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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