Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:07:26 GMT From: "Lanny Baron" <lnb@cybertouch.org> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does FreeBSD performs in server tasks? [off-topic] Message-ID: <20011019060726.78910.qmail@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20011019002641.K645-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> References: <20011019002641.K645-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Although this will come across biased because we build/sell servers and only install FreeBSD on them. With a Celeron in our entry level servers, it rocks (that is the rock derives it strength from the OS in this statement). But when you say server you must consider several things. What is it you are going to serve and what hardware are you going to give to the OS to work with. Lanny Chris BeHanna writes: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Conrado Vardanega wrote: > >> I would like to hear from Athlon-based server owners/admins how does it >> performs with server tasks. My aim is to find out how good is a Pentium III >> chip for a server instead a low-cost, high-performance Athlon CPU. I would >> consider, for evaluation purposes, a (FreeBSD) system running >> Apache/PHP/mod_ssl and MySQL mainly, because they're pretty sensitive to >> user-response. So, which are the pros and cons of having a Intel based >> server or a AMD based server? > > Support for Intel-based chipsets is likely to be more robust than > for the AMD or VIA-based chipsets that exist on Athlon motherboards. > As an example, it took awhile for XFree86 4.1.0 to be fixed to run on > motherboards with the "Irongate" chipset (AMD 761 north bridge) when a > Radeon QD video board is present. > > That said, my 1.333 GHz T-bird *flies*. I can build all of > userland in around 40 minutes, a kernel in under 5 minutes, and > all of XFree86 4.1.0 in about 20 minutes. For reference, I have 256MB > of Crucial PC2100 ECC DDR on-board, and my disk is a WD Caviar ATA-66, > 5400rpm. I have the write-caching sysctl enabled. > > Getting back to some more specific info you wanted, the only web > app I run that has bearing is Kalendus, and it responds mighty quickly. > >> "Add-in" topic: how DDR-memory instead SDRAM affects server performance? > > It *rocks*. > > For another benchmark, I pulled 110 MFLOPs from this machine with > the LINPACK benchmarks. > > -- > Chris BeHanna > Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) > behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net > I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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