Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:12:15 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net> To: rdugaue@calweb.com (Robert Du Gaue) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to solve the news server problem Message-ID: <199610070912.LAA25730@shadows.aeon.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961005080737.1636B-100000@web1.calweb.com> from Robert Du Gaue at "Oct 5, 96 08:13:56 am"
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> > how about running the news on sgi challenge s? > hehe. That cracks me up. We started our ISP with an SGI. Now it's called > boatanchor.calweb.com for good reasons. It's NFS stuff does not get along > with Freebsd and it barely handles the 64 businesses we have on it. which model? > > is there anyone familiar with the challenge s machines? the price doesnt > > sound too bad, since it's only a little more than pro200, and has faster > The last P6Pro/200 I got was about $3k. This was with 128megs ram, 2 gig notice that i do live in finland, and even though that this is a firm that's been selling pc hardware for years, and thus is getting the pc hardware for isping relatively cheap, still pro200 with 128 ecc ram, 4 2gig uw seagates, adaptec 3940, adequate cooling, no display/display adapter, dual smc ether cards, would cost me around $8000 considering that i would get sgi without much ram and disks but would get them myself, i would get it with less than $12000... (challenge s) and as far as i know, anyone's free to correct, it's cpu _does_ outperform atleast two pro200 machines... > fast/wide, dual ethernet controller, etc.... The challenge S is > considerably more then that, and make sure you get the correct software > options. By the time you're done getting what you need you'll be way over > $10k. not that much over... > > most _is_ the "slow" bus speed, coz you can drag only 132mbytes of stuff > "slow"? The PCI bus speed is quite adequate. 132mbyte across a 10mb > ethernet would be a neat trick. Our 10baseT backbone, with nearly 5000 > subscribers is only about 14% utilized during peak. The PCI buses or the > ethernet backbone are not a bottleneck! hmm... but how many servers you are running? mickey
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