From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 14:00:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5B6106564A for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwinlculp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20CD8FC08 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwa20 with SMTP id 20so1511696bwa.13 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:00:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qkmmoT/bQziIhh0tKnt8pvoHGsVmb7Y3P0+VQ6op+p0=; b=EolTzciSCpTYF6oVQXfnZ4Q5br/jjZnoTMpGMzaB7dDhKK0uDpwHP7Bwv/lXO4BaN2 SxOLSkPoeMsQ1K657/9M7+iVxdFO8aBiH5B1q6/rPnODSRb4FIKyweylKLbns5we/dVH QH0UtnPY8/dH81w909rpLC41PWTFWRPMW1zYo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.84.66 with SMTP id i2mr728017bkl.201.1309354589567; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.101.141 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:36:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110629073105.17922wqmo8yonl6o@econet.encontacto.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:36:29 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Edwin L. Culp W." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:00:52 -0000 On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:31:05 -0500, wrote: > >> In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of >> comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem >> with. =A0I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a gaming machin= e >> needs the most aggressive hardware. =A0I have also seen this processor w= ith 12 >> GB rather than 8 which, in my ignorance sounds better. > > I have /basically/ the same machine at home I use as my FreeBSD and > occasionally gaming machine with 12GB of RAM. It runs FreeBSD *very* well= . > If you care a lot about stability though the downside is that it's not > server class hardware, no ECC RAM, etc. But for a machine with a lot of > cores and memory -- have at it! > > > Cheers, > > > Mark Thanks, Mark. I see you have 12G. I'm totally ignorant on the distribution of memory for the 6 cores if there is such a thing. Is it advantageous to have a multiple of 6 when ordering memory? (12, 18, 24) As far as stability is concerned for a webserver, I don't see it as a major concern. I'm sure some of my older machines of the last 15 years were less stable even though they all had ECC, raid, etc. Please correct me if I am wrong. My perspective from Mexico, I'm sure is very different than if I were in the US or Europe, etc. Thanks, ed