Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:32:30 -0400 From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Chris Phillips" <chris@selkie.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Message-ID: <005201bfbc16$85d08180$4100000a@venux.net> References: <200005112333.QAA01911@mass.cdrom.com>
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> "PIII/Xeon" means "Pentium-III Xeon processor", not "PIII or Xeon > processors". Gotcha. > > 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. Yes, it is and it does (see Alfred's post). > Buy something smaller. Benchmark your application, and determine what > your performance requirements are. Make appropriate purchasing decisions > based on quantifiable results. Well, we have done this, we are upgrading, not starting from scratch. A dual system would work great, however I need a 64-Bit PCI slot to hold this Ultra 160 SCSI controller *and* I'd like to avoid spending $2500 in RDRAM to get what we already have in SDRAM :-) It's impossible, from what I've read to get exactly what I'm looking for.. It seems I'm going to have to put up with my drives running at half speed, or invest a lot more money in RAM. Thanks for your input, I appreciate it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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