From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 14 5: 4:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20A415284 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 902957555; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754C51D89; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:05:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:05:37 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Brett Glass Cc: David Scheidt , Terry Lambert , noslenj@swbell.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991213220839.00c869e0@localhost> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Brett Glass wrote: :Also, putting that much disk space on a single machine may not be a good idea. :If it has that much data to serve up or search, it's probably going to be :strapped for CPU cycles or network bandwidth. Depending on the situation, :you might be better off distributing your files or databases and putting several :disks (but not hundreds) on each server. This makes the system more failsafe, :too: one bad CPU won't take down the whole operation. Can I point out that the PC isn't the only platform on the planet? When I was at NASA 16 processor (or more) Origin2000's and Sun Enterprise servers with anywhere from 200GB to 1TB+ drive arrays on them were quite common. Eventually PC's won't be single processor toys. Hell, you can build dual CPU boxes now for less than a 286 cost 10 years ago. Any spec you come up with better be scalable, and not ignore multi cpu configurations. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, how Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message