From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 16:33:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A2737B611 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:33:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01911; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005112333.QAA01911@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Mitch Vincent" Cc: "Chris Phillips" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 2000 16:40:57 EDT." <001d01bfbb89$36965a00$0300000a@doot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:33:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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? 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