Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:28:23 +0000 From: Crispy Beef <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad? Message-ID: <43C256E7.2010402@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <4ADE8A8F-858B-4092-958B-88C6DA832729@shire.net> References: <4ADE8A8F-858B-4092-958B-88C6DA832729@shire.net>
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS > server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP > machine? Any disadvantage? > > Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron instead > of a 2.2ghz opteron for example)? > > I am planning for a Spring project to make an nfs server that serves to > multiple web servers / application servers using an Areca 1130 SATA > raid card. I assume lots of RAM for the OS to use to cache would be > desirable and GB ethernet. Have recently built a machine for just this purpose too, although it runs Linux, the hardware requirements will be the same. We needed a huge amount of storage on the network so went for the cheapest Opteron available (still overpowered), we put most of the cash into a decent motherboard with gigabit ethernet ports and fast PCI-X 3Ware raid cards to run the hardrives (the machine has over 3Tb of storage as it's used for video work - 16x 300Gb SATA drives). Also 1Gb of RAM. The bottlenecks on a server like this are always the network and drives, so look at those for performance.
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