From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 17:18:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5377416A423 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:18:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.freestylefund.com [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2C743D4C for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:18:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1Ew0fI-000BsZ-2E for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:18:40 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060109122752.D12901@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <4ADE8A8F-858B-4092-958B-88C6DA832729@shire.net> <20060109122752.D12901@chylonia.3miasto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:18:39 -0700 To: Free BSD Questions list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:18:42 -0000 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