Le dimanche 05 août 2007 à 23:49 +0200, SZALAY Attila a écrit : > Yes, you are right in a Desktop. You are right in a server too. But if > you want to collect log messages from some hundred machine is an other > question. And it's more easy to put another CPU into the machine than > double the clock rate.
Some simple experiments we have done show a single CPU is more than enough to handle 40 Mbit/s of logs (using syslog-ng, of course). There are some systems where you may need more than one CPU, but you'll find they are pretty rare. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.