Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:33:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> Cc: "Chris Phillips" <chris@selkie.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Message-ID: <200005112333.QAA01911@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 2000 16:40:57 EDT." <001d01bfbb89$36965a00$0300000a@doot.org>
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> 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? You can't run more than two PII or PIII processors in a system. > *shrug* not really sure. The motherboards say they support PIII/XEON, so I > was wondering what your logic was behind what you said. "PIII/Xeon" means "Pentium-III Xeon processor", not "PIII or Xeon processors". > As far as the database using all 4 processors, any threaded program *could* > use them, couldn't they? Not unless it's designed to do so. I don't believe that Postgres is/does. > *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 :-) Buy something smaller. Benchmark your application, and determine what your performance requirements are. Make appropriate purchasing decisions based on quantifiable results. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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