From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 10:39:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F0E15071 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@bandserver.com) Received: from bandserver.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990914173918.JWRU15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@bandserver.com>; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:39:18 -0700 Message-ID: <37DE89A3.D64AA644@bandserver.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:45:07 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pratt, Christopher B" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Dual CPU effectiveness? References: <69B1BFD5C2CDD21189120008C75D3CCD138D56@ORSPABOTHELL2B.par.ora.fda.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All I know for sure is that the Internet's busiest FTP site, ftp.cdrom.com at 1.4 terabytes per day, runs FreeBSD on one P-III CPU. Other than that, I'm not sure. RAB "Pratt, Christopher B" wrote: > I am considering buying a dual PIII CPU to replace the single PII CPU from > which I operate a high traffic website running FreeBSD, Apache, PERL and > mysql. I have been unable to locate a place where I can get a definitive > answer on whether FreeBSD can make decent use of dual cpu or even if a PIII > is compatible (though I know it is, the info available is not current > enough). If anyone can point me to explicit info on this I would appreciate > it. > > I am also enclosing the current and upgraded configuration below in case > anyone would hazard a guess at the performance improvement that FreeBSD > might experience. I have tuned the existing system such that it has no swap > or process failures but during peak hours on the net it still runs like a > slug. Will this upgrade do any good with FreeBSD commensurate with the cost? > A related but not identical question is whether FreeBSD usage of multiple > cpus is sufficiently better than just using one fast cpu? > > Existing Configuration > PII 300 Mhz CPU > 66 Mhz BUS > IDE Controller (6.4 MB UDMA) > 128 MB RAM > > Planned Upgrade > Dual PIII 550 Mhz CPUs on ASUS P2B-DS ATX > 100 Mhz BUS > SCSI Controller (9.1 IBM Drive) > 256 MB RAM > > Thanks in advance. Chris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Roy Bettle President, bandServer.com rbettle@bandserver.com www.bandserver.com (949) 716-9552 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message