From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 24 9: 7:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.inktomi.com (mercury.inktomi.com [209.1.32.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DE414D20 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:07:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jplevyak@inktomi.com) Received: from tsdev (tsdev.inktomi.com [209.1.32.119]) by mercury.inktomi.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA29926; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jplevyak@localhost) by tsdev (SMI-8.6/) id JAA07537; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:07:20 -0700 Message-ID: <19990624090720.C7473@tsdev.inktomi.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:07:20 -0700 From: John Plevyak To: Karl Denninger , Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) References: <19990623223038.A6422@Denninger.Net> <19990624100041.B7559@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990624100041.B7559@Denninger.Net>; from Karl Denninger on Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:00:41AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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