Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:32:14 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ? Message-ID: <20011108213214.A69714@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <F101y8VBDUfdfdhNzW30000d248@hotmail.com>; from part_lion@hotmail.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:36:18PM -0700 References: <F101y8VBDUfdfdhNzW30000d248@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:36:18PM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote:
> 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.
Does it matter? 90% of the "shell" systems I see have poor
performance because they are out of memory and swapping like a dog.
Another 9.99% have enough memory, but because there aren't enough
disks / fast enough disks everything is blocked waiting on io.
Only 0.01% of them have I ever seen be CPU bound (100 tintin++'s
can do that to you :-).
Unless it's a compiler farm, or you have lots of users running
specialized apps (mathematica, staroffice) I bet pouring your money
into memory and io bandwidth will make the system more 'responsive'
to the end users.
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