From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 14:56:42 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 3AB6A37B691 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 14:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mitch@venux.net) Received: from doot2 (usr3-ip018-grr.wmis.net [209.176.193.68]) by icebox.venux.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D60926202; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002901bfbb94$744e36a0$0300000a@doot.org> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:01:25 -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 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 To: Mitch Vincent 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