From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 26 21:35:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA26964 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:35:52 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA26955 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:35:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA16300; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:34:54 -0700 To: Nate Williams cc: "Russell L. Carter" , FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:09:26 MDT." <199510270409.WAA02932@rocky.sri.MT.net> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:34:54 -0700 Message-ID: <16298.814768494@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Sorry folks, my ISP is downgrading from FreeBSD Pentiums to SGI > > multiprocessor boxes (no offense Larry ;-), so guess what, I've been > > basically hosed for the last three days. > > You went from FAST machines to SLOW machines? Why in earth would you do > that? Actually, they're not the only ones. BEST did the same thing and apparently the SGI is working fairly well for them.. But hey, let's compare apples with apples here.. The SGI machines are multiprocessor R4000 boxes costing tens of thousands of dollars, and a fully loaded P5 system will run you $5K or so.. The big problem all ISPs are having is that this stuff just doesn't scale very well. If you could just drop another P5 into the soup and "cluster" it transparently then we'd be looking at a whole 'nother ballgame, but.. This kind of forces the really big ISPs into doing exactly what Russell's ISP has done.. :-( Jordan