From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 17 2:50:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D744A37B408 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (relay2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.1]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3-2) with ESMTP id f9H9oMj06745; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:22 +0200 (MEST) Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3/6) with ESMTP id f9H9oLo06741; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:21 +0200 (MEST) Received: from zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.28]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15703; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:18 +0200 Received: by zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 32F3714AAF; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:18 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Conrado Vardanega Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How does Athlon performs in server tasks? Message-ID: <20011017115018.B721@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cvspam@ig.com.br on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:32:08AM -0300 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. 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 Thus spake Conrado Vardanega (cvspam@ig.com.br): > 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? Read this article: http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index.html For a production system where uptime matters and that runs 24/7, I'd really recommend the Pentium IV, for above reasons. The speed difference isn't valueable if you are hitten by a fan damage in the night and your server is down for hours. I have a Athlon Thunderbird 1000 MHz myself as a server, without DDR RAM. It performs nice, but I don't think I'd have bought it if I'd known about the above article before. > 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? Only some percent, doesn't really matter. Better get GOOD ECC RAM. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message