From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 14 19:56:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-203.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C09A37B407 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 19:56:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topperwein (topperwein [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4F2uBcI087542 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 22:56:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: NFS server reccomendations... In-Reply-To: <20020514150243.GA1402@arrakis.tamu.edu> Message-ID: <20020514225539.U85903-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 May 2002, Mark Nipper wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:21:41AM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > As the SMP architecture of 4.x is a bit simplistic : only one processor > > can run the kernel at any one time, there is NO gain using an SMP > > machine for I/O (disk or network) > > > > Thus, an SMP machine may not be the best choice for an NFS server > > (exchanging one processor for even more RAM is a better bet). > > Of course, then again, since the 760MPX/762 chipset is > one of the only AMD chipsets (if not the only newer chipset) > which supports ECC memory, you'll probably end up with two > sockets on the board anyway. > > I've been running into this trying to put together a > co-lo server. I really don't want to run it without ECC memory. > But show me an Athlon board with ECC memory and PC2100 DDR memory > with less than two sockets! :) Gigabyte GA-7DX You're welcome. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer Turning coffee into software since 1990. behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message