From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 12 17:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64779150B1 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:36:15 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: , "Doug" Cc: , Subject: RE: 3C905 versus Intel Etherexpress PRO/100?! Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:36:15 -0700 Message-ID: <000001beccc7$b6f21830$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <199907130032.TAA23620@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > A fundamental design element for a server OS (as opposed to a > > desktop OS) is to always assume that *every* cpu cycle is valuable. Funny, this claim is the opposite of what I've usually heard. Generally, for desktop use, performance is considered more important that stability or reliability, which is why people often overclock processors in their desktops. Whereas, for server use, performance (I'm talking 5% or 10%, not factors of 2) takes a back seat to almost everything else. You can always buy a faster CPU, or another CPU, for your server. You can always add more RAM. You are far more concerned with things like clean design, extra safety checks to prevent crashes, and so on. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message