Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:18:39 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad? Message-ID: <D508BDDE-4750-4DAC-8FAD-C2C510045E33@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <20060109122752.D12901@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <4ADE8A8F-858B-4092-958B-88C6DA832729@shire.net> <20060109122752.D12901@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Wojciech Puchar 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 > > no. one CPU is powerful enough. pentium 200 class machine does have > no problems working as NFS server for 100Mbit/s LAN at full speed, > assuming disk is able to cope with. > >> disadvantage? >> >> Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron >> instead of a 2.2ghz opteron for example)? > > no. with slowest available AMD64 CPU it will still be much > overpowered. consider using that machine for other tasks too. > > but you will need motherboard with something better than 33Mhz 32- > bit PCI and lots of ATA/SATA ports, or extra controllers plugged if > you like this server to really be able to do 1000Mbit/s speed. yes, PCI-X and Areca 1130 12 port SATA Raid card. I wonder how FreeBSD compares to Solaris 10 for nfs serving. "Client" servers are a mix of FreeBSD and Solaris 10. Thanks Chad > >> card. I assume lots of RAM for the OS to use to cache would be >> desirable and GB ethernet. >> > all depends of the type of workload. in case of mostly large file > streamed big cache won't help much. in case mostly small subset of > files will be used, big cache may be a benefit. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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