From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 2 21:09:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FAA248 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:09:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22c.google.com (mail-ie0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF1B190E for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 17so8565698iea.17 for ; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vi56AGZ26bGFkYTL9eEv2HXvf6ERQRx8wXXxuqDPGSQ=; b=t7NYyob7XEZjH5hZmBNB95yEYhgBIjmJYqhjM9IC4R3QNGdU9siWVCeSWK2cSq3iBN wQuFpkKL35pTlg14Iv5qiT96yXzrnLsH7jOn+490VLi8p/2bpCRKhirNVJ/pcY6aFUUs clBcnVVP1Vm+hj9fjW8kaiBeEqZ9LcXSpqSpnvp7cnghTpUEiP2lg5YmYv8Oe7m1xO2e 9jroDqjdQVVEwiiMAV++pR9N6qQcIsBprMxYEmugVSMlEXbUgPEgM/Ej/zneCJt08slg TaoQVrVRjOID+7MSvGcCGDydQQKbqvoy+ksPbpCuZOfezTTA25ovMgSClbJ7JtI5OWZz oGZQ== X-Received: by 10.43.133.134 with SMTP id hy6mr9096169icc.57.1370207360339; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.34] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qr3sm16287133igb.1.2013.06.02.14.09.19 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51ABB457.5060205@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:08:39 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on References: <51ABAC4D.4040302@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <51ABAC4D.4040302@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:09:21 -0000 You mean like a high end rack mount server that's FreeBSD's primary use? One catch about ram, the faster ram comes in smaller sticks. I have four 8Gb sticks for 32Gb, but it's not the fastest ram. The fastest ram tends to be 2Gb sticks. At the moment, FreeBSD's set to a max of 64 cores on amd64, that's "threads" for Intel, but it can be changed if you actually need it. Newegg has a quad socket xeon 4U system that has a total of 40 cores/80 threads, and comes with 128GB of ram. It will set you back over $30k. You'll need to make a compromise about memory and cpu. A lot of games aren't overly multithreaded because most people aren't even quad core yet. The fastest per core processors aren't the fastest overall. Look at cpubenchmark.net's top speed page and compare it to the single threaded page. Which do you think will do a game better and which will do 100 jails better? On 6/2/2013 3:34 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > I'm a sub second speed freak. What is the max number of cpu's and memory > size that Freebsd can handle? Can it handle 16 4ghz cpu's and 32gb of > memory? I need a gaming server with some really big balls for hundreds > of jails. Money is not a deciding factor here, horse power is. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"