From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 9:27:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo28.mx.aol.com (imo28.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBFC14D6D for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ESPO247@aol.com) Received: from ESPO247@aol.com (353) by imo28.mx.aol.com (IMOv20) id 3KBDa17716; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:26:16 -0400 (EDT) From: ESPO247@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:26:14 EDT Subject: Re: seeking advice: cpus, scsi & raid To: vsiris@csi.forth.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 62 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It depends on the application you are using. If the application dosn't support SMP, then it won't do you any good having a dual processer machine. But with Xeons, you can have up to 8 processers. I believe with the stock PIIIs, you can only have up to 4. Espo In a message dated 99-06-09 03:48:33 EDT, you write: > Q1: Given that I need fast processing for few users (max 3-4), would > a PIII Xeon@500Mhz > be preferable (cost/performance) compared to a 2 PIII@ 500 Mhz ? Of > course this is related to > how faster a Xeon processor is, but is also related to how well FreeBSD > can take advantage of a multiprocessor system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message