Server choice.

[Eric Anderson]

Paul Halliday wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am in the process of building a new database server and after
> pricing up 2 Dell models I thought I would throw this out just to see
> which choice would be better suited for FreeBSD.
> 
> The demands on the system will be mostly network -> disk I/O with a
> hope of best performance on quickly servicing numerous reads; for
> example when reports are generated using the data in the database.
> 
> The 2 choices (we dont have that much money and they have to be Dell)
> are a poweredge 1850 and a poweredge 850.
> 
> 850 specs.
> ----------------
> Procsesor: Pentium(Dual Core) 830 @ 3.0GHz/2X1MB Cache 800MHz FSB
> Memory: 2GB DDR2, 533MHz (2x1GB) Dual ranked DIMMs
> Disks: SATA
> 
> 1850 specs.
> ------------------
> Processors: 2 @ Xeon @ 3.0GHz/2MB Cache 800MHz FSB
> Memory: 2GB DDR2, 400MHz (4x512) Single ranked DIMMs
> Disks: Ultra 320
> 
> The pricing is really close.

I'm not sure the type of memory<->cpu utilization that mysql will do, 
however I can tell you that in a number of applications that do lots of 
cpu cache utilization, the 2x Xeon will knock over the dual-core.

I'd go with the 1850 (we have stacks of these in house).

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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