From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 21 21:45:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364A316A403 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DB043D64 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:45:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.51) id 1GbOev-000GKi-4f; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:45:37 -0600 In-Reply-To: <943C8D5E-40D8-46DF-9290-1D8B0E0733CC@redstarling.com> References: <943C8D5E-40D8-46DF-9290-1D8B0E0733CC@redstarling.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-33-623825989; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:45:35 -0600 To: ke han X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions Questions list Subject: Re: 4 core Opteron performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:45:38 -0000 --Apple-Mail-33-623825989 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Oct 21, 2006, at 2:29 AM, ke han wrote: > I realize this is a bit open-ended. But I need some advice anyway > as I need to make a final decision on using FreeBSD 6.1 on a > production server. > I have a new Sun x4100 server. 2 x dual core Opterons with 8 GB > RAM. I need to run MySQL 5, a single threaded HTTP server, and a > few other single threaded daemons. > This server will have lots of long living sockets for one of the > single threaded servers. Other than that, its not outside normal > usage bounds. > I would like feedback on overall performance from anyone who has > used FreeBSD 6.1 with hardware similar to this. I'm not a guy who > cares about getting the last 10% of performance out of a server. I > am happy to trade performance for maintainability and a little > peace of mind. I have a dual opteron 2.0ghz (not dual core) with 4GB ram running 6.1. It ran a very busy mysql 4 server (feeding three other dedicated apache server machines), plus it runs a few FrontBase databases that are not so busy (low -- med low usage), and about 30 instances of apache (ie, min of 30 jails, each running their own apache) and a couple of jails with roxen serving webpages, plus a bind daemon, a moderately busy exim mta, courier imap and pop daemons, and some other assorted stuff, like a bunch of java based WebObjects instance and some db stuff (like some low use mysql 4/5 etc). It rarely broke much of a heavy sweat in normal usage. The super busy mysql 4 server is now gone and the machine rarely even sweats at all now (all the rest is still there). I would google on x4100 and FreeBSD or search the archives for any machine-specific issues. I kind of remember some issues with some sort of Sun servers. best Chad > > btw, I'm not tried to start another "FreeBSD has poor SMP" flame-fest. > > any thoughts? > thanks, ke han --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net --Apple-Mail-33-623825989--