From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 0: 2:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4A337B782; Sat, 13 May 2000 00:02:38 -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 AAA01368; Sat, 13 May 2000 00:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005130703.AAA01368@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Mitch Vincent" Cc: "Mike Smith" , "Chris Phillips" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 09:32:30 EDT." <005201bfbc16$85d08180$4100000a@venux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:03:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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