Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:07:20 -0700 From: John Plevyak <jplevyak@inktomi.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) Message-ID: <19990624090720.C7473@tsdev.inktomi.com> In-Reply-To: <19990624100041.B7559@Denninger.Net>; from Karl Denninger on Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:00:41AM -0500 References: <19990623223038.A6422@Denninger.Net> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990623203542.993P-100000@current1.whistle.com> <19990624100041.B7559@Denninger.Net>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:00:41AM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > I know about the SMP issues. But in many applications going to SMP is > actually a reliability AND throughput lose (web servers is one example). > You're better off with 4 machines than 1 big 4-way machine. The problem is that a loaded 2-way machine is only slightly more expensive than a 1-way, and current trends indicate that 4-ways will be increasingly common. It isn't a question of 1 big 4-way vs 4 1-ways, but of what you can get of out $Xk worth of hardware. The current sweet spot is often some number of 2-ways, and if for your app the OS doesn't scale it can make that OS less economical by comparison. john -- John Bradley Plevyak, PhD, jplevyak@inktomi.com, PGP KeyID: 051130BD Inktomi Corporation, 1900 S. Norfolk Street, Suite 310, San Mateo, CA 94403 W:(650)653-2830 F:(650)653-2889 P:(888)491-1332/5103192436.4911332@pagenet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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