From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 15 20:32:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.ig.com.br (smtp-2.ig.com.br [200.226.132.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5019637B40F for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15900 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 03:35:21 -0000 Received: from adsl-fnsbnu-067-a.brt.telesc.net.br (HELO conrado) (@200.193.25.67) by smtp-2.ig.com.br with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 03:35:21 -0000 From: "Conrado Vardanega" To: Subject: How does Athlon performs in server tasks? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 01:32:08 -0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there! I'm considering assembling an Athlon-based multipurpose server (Apache+PHP/MySQL/Sendmail/etc.) and would like to hear from administrators that runs Athlon-based servers how is performs. The Athlon has many pros, including low pricing, low cost motherboards, etc. Is there any reason that shoud lead me to pick a lower clock Intel processor (eg. Pentium III 800 MHz), instead a more powerful Athlon 1.4 GHz? By the way, how does memory affects performance regarding Apache and other services that need fast response? Should I seriously consider DDR-memory instead a lot of SDRAM or it doesn't matters at all? I appreciate all feedback. Thank you very much. --- Conrado Vardanega cvarda@ig.com.br http://go.to/conrado To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message