From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 8 17:36:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f101.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1CB37B41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:36:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:36:18 -0800 Received: from 204.118.157.158 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 09 Nov 2001 01:36:18 GMT X-Originating-IP: [204.118.157.158] From: "Joesh Juphland" To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ? Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 18:36:18 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Nov 2001 01:36:18.0843 (UTC) FILETIME=[EDF536B0:01C168BE] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am planning on building a true multi-user system (as opposed to a NFS server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many people with many shells will be doing many things. Two things have been decided: - it will run freeBSD - it will be dual processor ----- So what two processors should I use ? Coming from a Sun hardware background, I originally thought to use PIII Xeons .. since they have a lot of cache, and fast cache. I was thinking 512meg cache p3 xeons running at 550mhz. But what about a modern athlon MP processor ? Much less cache, but it runs at 266mhz, and it is much faster ... 1700mhz or so. One specific question might be, at what bus speed and mhz speed do the advantages of a "good" processor like a xeon start to not matter ? Any advice, comments appreciated. --joesh _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message