From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 10 07:26:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA0C16A403 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from etc@fluffles.net) Received: from auriate.fluffles.net (a83-68-3-169.adsl.cistron.nl [83.68.3.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBBA43D45 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:26:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from etc@fluffles.net) Received: from destiny ([10.0.0.21]) by auriate.fluffles.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GiQlx-0005Us-DJ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:25:57 +0100 Message-ID: <45542994.7080406@fluffles.net> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:26:12 +0100 From: Fluffles User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060917) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: white@prokhorenko.us References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Core 2 Duo and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:26:02 -0000 Olexandr Prokhorenko wrote: > Hello guys, > Oh, now you're discriminating! ;-) > I¹m considering getting a new Core 2 Duo (Intel® Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU > 2.13GHz) server to run under FreeBSD. I briefly searched the Internet and > found some concerns and trouble reports about FreeBSD and Core 2 Duo > servers. Do you have a URL for me of those reports? Are they specific to the CPU? That would surprise me alot. :) Actually i think Core 2 Duo will run just fine. But like with all new hardware going in-production, you should first conduct extensive testing. Such as: memory and CPU stresstests (prime cpu stresstests/memtest86) and actual tests with the version of FreeBSD you're going to run (i take it you'll want to run AMD64?). > I really need to use this server for high load production use and > it¹s not acceptable for me to have the server running into any kind of > problems, crashes, or whatever else. As an alternative to Core 2 Duo, I was > thinking about Intel® Pentium® D 945 Dual Core 3.4GHz, but I was told that > it has significantly less power. > In fact, it uses significantly more power; but delivers significantly less processing power. If you were to consider Pentium D you really should be looking at AMD Athlon 64 X2 instead, since they outbeat Pentium D in just about every way. But with Core 2 Duo it's different; they perform sometimes up to two times better than the Pentium D and uses significantly less power. Although the idle usage is still twice that of comparable Athlon 64 X2 processors. By the way i would recommand the E6600 version instead, if you require alot of processing power. They also have twice as many cache. - Veronica