Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:30:32 -0400 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: "'Charles Burns'" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <000001c0c9f1$e52fa4a0$1400a8c0@zoso> In-Reply-To: <F258Mjg9vOXGbQtF8tB0000401b@hotmail.com>
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<snip> > 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
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