Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:42:01 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Subject: Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache Message-ID: <4450F459.60505@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <02b401c66a18$8058f230$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <20060425090739.8470143f.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <005301c668ab$39c4c150$8b00a8c0@multiplay.co.uk> <444E8F8A.9030409@rogers.com> <17487.34074.833134.823847@canoe.dclg.ca><444F8912.4010604@rogers.com><44505784.2030806@gneto.com> <4450EC9B.1050101@rogers.com><029201c66a16$a3c7e890$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <4450F0F2.9040102@rogers.com> <02b401c66a18$8058f230$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> >> >> Just look around the list on the continuous problems people have with >> that and the nve card. I would never feel safe putting these in >> production. > > I would agree with nve but not had any problems with bge > here and we put them under quite a bit of load as busy > DB, Web, FTP and Samba servers not to mention metric tone > of game servers. > Sure, not to say they are all broken, but many do have problems, so it becomes a gamble. > If you want a specific netcard nothing to stop you putting > in a PCI-X card which is what we do when we want Fibre, you > dont tend to find many MB netcards are fibre :) Yes there is, i need a 1U single Opteron board, with 2 integrated cards. I guess the current AMD offerings do not meet my requirements. I am working on a commercial product, which is an all in one 1U appliance (running fbsd of course), and i had to go with Intel just for reasons of availability, stability, and support.
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