building an older server
ANdrei
lists at hausro.de
Sun Sep 4 17:53:45 PDT 2005
tks for your reply again.
> Both processors have a very small amount of cache. Maybe the Duron can
> be faster than your pair of Celerons, but the only way to know it is
> benchmarking both systems with the applications that you want to run.
maybe this is getting a bit offtopic, but what are the best benchmarks you
would suggest?
I'm looking for a disk benchmark, also. There is oe in the ports, that I
found (sorry, forgot the name) and used, but it got me some weird results,
with big differences at different runs... anything good to test on FreeBSD?
I also have the option of using a Socket423 Intel P4 1.4GHz on a Asus board
with 2x128MB RIMM... but this is all memory I can get on this board, I guess
though the proc is far faster than the duron or the 2 celeron's, because of
the RAM it'll run in all slower, right? On the other boards I get 768MB
SDRAM...
I'm asking mainly theoretical things here, as I won't be using the server in
full load at the beginning, so I can't really test what the limits are, but
it'll have peaks when doing some tasks from time to time, and that's why I
want to check on what you think the best (fastest and most stable) option
is.
I decided to go for FreeBSD 6.x anyway, because of WPA-PSK...
> I am not saying that your pair of Celerons are crap or something like
> that, I just want to remark that the performance boast with a SMP
> system isn't linear, spreading jobs across processors is also a job,
> and can be very intensive :)
yep, that's what I wanted to know, too, and what I thought about, too...
ANdrei
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