Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 02:07:29 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Joesh Juphland <part_lion@hotmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ? Message-ID: <20011109100729.18381.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <F101y8VBDUfdfdhNzW30000d248@hotmail.com>
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--- Joesh Juphland <part_lion@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I am planning on building a true multi-user system > (as opposed to a NFS > server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many > people with many shells > will be doing many things. > > Two things have been decided: > > - it will run freeBSD > - it will be dual processor > > ----- > > So what two processors should I use ? Coming from a > Sun hardware > background, I originally thought to use PIII Xeons > .. since they have a lot > of cache, and fast cache. I was thinking 512meg > cache p3 xeons running at > 550mhz. > > But what about a modern athlon MP processor ? Much > less cache, but it runs > at 266mhz, and it is much faster ... 1700mhz or so. > > One specific question might be, at what bus speed > and mhz speed do the > advantages of a "good" processor like a xeon start > to not matter ? > hi joesh, i think the two Xeon Processors will do the job. As long as you have that good cache with ya... thanks, regards, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> ===== thanks, regards, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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