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. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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