From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 16:30:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h011.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90E2137B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:30:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 23636 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2001 16:30:40 -0700 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.217) with SMTP; 20 Apr 2001 16:30:40 -0700 X-Sent: 20 Apr 2001 23:30:40 GMT From: "Otter" To: "'Charles Burns'" , Cc: Subject: RE: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:30:32 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c0c9f1$e52fa4a0$1400a8c0@zoso> 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 CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How many CPUs do you need? The Supermicro SQ2E6 supports up > to four 700MHz > Xeons and uses SDRAM rather than Rambus. You may look into a > different mobo or try the SQ2R6 for up to quad 900MHz Xeons... -Otter > if you need a faster server... Might as well if you're buying > new Xeons as > well. Despite any flaws that the PPro core may have, AMD > doesn't really have > any truely server class solutions yet. > > Having lots of cache memory is really only very important for > software that > has a few MB of code that is used over and over and over, > such as the search > algorhythms in a database package. Because L2 cache is far > faster than going > to main memory, the server greatly benefits from being able > to keep all or > most of the frequently used code within it. (This is probably > also the case > with compilers, but GCC seems to be more limited by the > number of times it > can be spawned in a period of time than the amount of time it > needs to > compile a given .c file) > If this isn't news just ignore me. :) > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message