From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 24 10:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06769 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsd.synx.com (rt.synx.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06641; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from <@rn.synx.com:root@synx.com>) Received: from s3.synx.com (s3 [192.1.1.247]) by bsd.synx.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA01817; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:23:41 +0100 Received: from rn by s3.synx.com id aa27782; 24 Apr 98 19:08 BST Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 19:18:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy NONNENMACHER Reply-To: remy@synx.com Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb To: dwilde1@ibm.net cc: don@partsnow.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3540B774.CAB68C0C@partsnow.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-ID: <9804241908.aa27782@s3.synx.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24 Apr, Don Wilde wrote: > I have spoken to several of my lower level salesman types at various companies, > and they all could _immediately_ see the benefit to their companies of such a > media circus as I'm proposing. (For those on -hardware, seek this thread in the > -advocacy archives, I won't repeat it here) > > With that in mind, I'd like to solicit comments on what the best hardware > (single CPU) we can get to give us the highest TCPIP network throughput. If > you'll look at http://www.SPECbench.org, you'll see the disclosures for the > systems Novell and others have used to achieve their performance. The key to > this thing is maximum bandwidth, disk performance, and maximum intelligence on > the IO channels. Even if we do it by using a gigabit card set and fiber, we're > after exposure for FreeBSD and Apache, not necessarily long-lasting benchmark > numbers. > > Once we have the system spec'd, I have no doubt I can get hardware, because it's > very obvious that this will be an enormous bonanza for all major corporate > sponsors. Interesting points about the specs : "Cache volume: NetWare volume spanning six drives, each with a single 204MB partition" This means they used stripping and only the beginning of disks (where the media rate is the highest). Hard to beat without a well tuned ccd and less than 2 SCSI controllers. (note they also used 10K rpm disks). (PS : 6x4.3Gig for creating a 1.2G filesystem !! what an efficiency !! 4% efficiency is far from a realistic system). Other parameters tend to indicate that all goes to memory and stick there. Is there any specification about a cool-down stage between tests ? Network: "All nets at half duplex". Why not full dup ? they can't ? something hidden with the BT350 ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message