Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: Presence <presence@squirtle.irev.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xeon Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012041707010.83464-100000@squirtle.irev.net>
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I help admin for a country code top level domain and one of the 5 main name servers is a dual Xeon 550 running FreeBSD 4.1 SMP. The server was built using a SuperMicro motherboard, DPT IV Raid, and 4 gigs of ram almost two years ago. The box hosts secondary dns for 51,000 domains and a couple of web sites, so its uptime and reliability is definatly important and popping out answers to ns queries quickly is essential, and the box does it perfectly. The other 4 servers run under Dell or VALinux RedHat boxen and they constantly have little troubles here and there. The other guys in tech are RedHat certified this and that and constantly give me grief over the lone FreeBSD server, but I simply point out its uptime, speed, and the fact there hasn't been any problems with it since the day it went up over a year ago. I found that the Xeon's speed in doing mundane greps, dns queries, and mysql lookups is actually faster than the same raid/ram combo in a PIII-550. Its not like anyone would really consider the difference in speed a major deal, but it's definatly notable to me. Buildworld's speed on the dual xeon compared to when it was a dual PIII wasn't all that awesome.. it only shaved of maybe 5 minutes. I am very much all about the speed difference in large MySQL queries on the xeon, however. Queries are typically 20% faster compared to the PIII, probably due to the increased cache on the CPU. Just my opinions. - Presence > I find it strange that lots of people are trying (booting) FreeBSD on > large x86 SMP systems, but no one seems to be using them in production. > > Is FreeBSD practical on large x86 SMP systems? It looks like some > slightly used Netfinity 5500 M20s with three Xeons each are about to > thrust upon me (picked up for half-price from a failing .com startup), > rather than the multiple dual-CPU systems that I originally speced. Now a > 3 x PIII-500 Xeon system is hardly large by any means, but what kind of > performance should be expected? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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