From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 2:12:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C632837B401 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA31088; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:19:57 +0200 Message-ID: <3B330C25.AC20893B@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:13:09 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSD Freak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Hardware References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BSD Freak schrieb: > > Hiya guys, > > I need some opinions - > > I am building two high performance web servers (single CPU in each > system) to run some PHP4 based web applications. > > Cost is no consideration (ie the cost difference between AMD and Intel) > > Should I go AMD 1.2Ghz or PIII 1Ghz ? AMD Athlons crunch better than PIII or P4 at the same frequency. But this is only important for number crunchers, thus it's irrelevant for a web server. To get the CPU work reliably, I'd trade 100MHz for a Papst cooler ;) > Should use a motherboard with a VIA chipset or i810 i815 i820 (I will > most likely be using a GigaByte motherboard) Depends. I tend to use boards I can replace within a few hours. (I.e. get spare parts easily.) Be careful to stay away from boards featuring onboard video with shared memory -- those are speed hogs. > Will I have any problems with any of the above? Neither of the above named parts will cause headaches. > I will of course be running FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE > > Which Processor/Motherboard will give me best performance? That's not important for a server. Important for your server throughput will be mostly to choose decent NICs, as well as decent I/O channels to storage. RAID will be fine, SCSI is a must for reliable systems, tape backup should be mandatory. No, I don't talk DAT here -- 1/2" is the way to go. Just my EUR.02 -CHristoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message