Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:03:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> Cc: "Mike Smith" <msmith@freebsd.org>, "Chris Phillips" <chris@selkie.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Message-ID: <200005130703.AAA01368@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 09:32:30 EDT." <005201bfbc16$85d08180$4100000a@venux.net>
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> > 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 :-) So buy eg. a Supermicro PIIIDM3 or an AMI MegaDual, both of which have onboard U160 SCSI, both of which have 64-bit PCI, and both of which take much less expensive SDRAM and PIII processors. > 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. You're certainly not looking very hard. -- \\ 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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