From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 3 11:24:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C233C6 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:24:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A00D17D0 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r53BO4f9016629 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:24:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <51AC7CD4.2050807@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:24:04 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd8 Subject: Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on References: <51ABAC4D.4040302@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <51ABAC4D.4040302@a1poweruser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:24:09 -0000 On 02/06/2013 21:34, Fbsd8 wrote: > I'm a sub second speed freak. What is the max number of cpu's and > memory size that Freebsd can handle? Can it handle 16 4ghz cpu's and > 32gb of memory? I need a gaming server with some really big balls for > hundreds of jails. Money is not a deciding factor here, horse power is. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It'll certainly support it, the biggest server I FreeBSD on at the moment is: root@parisnfsen:~ # head -20 /var/run/dmesg.boot Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #4 r249837: Wed Apr 24 13:37:24 CEST 2013 root@parisnfsen.nottellingyou.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARISNFSEN amd64 gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD] CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (2394.05-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x206c2 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x2c Stepping = 2 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x29ee3ff AMD Features=0x2c100800 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) avail memory = 33090797568 (31557 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 16 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads as other people have said though, one big server is often not the best answer, keep things like disk io and resiliency in mind. This is a PowerEdge R410 seems to be pretty happy trundling along on 9-STABLE Vince