Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:08:42 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server choice. Message-ID: <4447CE2A.1040603@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30604201049i41e409e1y8924383843c95980@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dab70a30604201049i41e409e1y8924383843c95980@mail.gmail.com>
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Paul Halliday wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the process of building a new database server and after > pricing up 2 Dell models I thought I would throw this out just to see > which choice would be better suited for FreeBSD. > > The demands on the system will be mostly network -> disk I/O with a > hope of best performance on quickly servicing numerous reads; for > example when reports are generated using the data in the database. > > The 2 choices (we dont have that much money and they have to be Dell) > are a poweredge 1850 and a poweredge 850. > > 850 specs. > ---------------- > Procsesor: Pentium(Dual Core) 830 @ 3.0GHz/2X1MB Cache 800MHz FSB > Memory: 2GB DDR2, 533MHz (2x1GB) Dual ranked DIMMs > Disks: SATA > > 1850 specs. > ------------------ > Processors: 2 @ Xeon @ 3.0GHz/2MB Cache 800MHz FSB > Memory: 2GB DDR2, 400MHz (4x512) Single ranked DIMMs > Disks: Ultra 320 > > The pricing is really close. I'm not sure the type of memory<->cpu utilization that mysql will do, however I can tell you that in a number of applications that do lots of cpu cache utilization, the 2x Xeon will knock over the dual-core. I'd go with the 1850 (we have stacks of these in house). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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