From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 31 21: 7:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B494A37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:07:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E808043F3F for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:07:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h1157UOA069174; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:07:30 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200301312312.h0VNC5bQ007170@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200301312312.h0VNC5bQ007170@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:07:28 -0500 To: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Lower power SMP boxes? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:12 PM -0800 1/31/03, Matthew Dillon wrote: > But MP is another story. At some point I would like to put > together some SMP test boxes that don't cost the equivalent > of rent on a small apartment in electricity use. They don't > have to be super-fast, they just need to be SMP. I'm not > talking about blade servers here, I'm talking about SMP > boxes for testing purposes. > > Anyone have any ideas? The arrival of FreeBSD/PPC might give you some cheaper options. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message