-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 21:15, michael wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> Looking for suggestions on going with 1 dual core CPU >>>> or 2 dual core CPU. Main server would be an NFS file server. >>>> Probably using SW raid as well. >>>> Money is a conern. >>>> Is it better to go with a single, yet faster CPU?, >>>> or go with a slower CPU, yet have 2 of them? >>>> >>> Go with whatever you can get cheeper. If it is primarily an NFS server, >>> any CPU over 1 GHz will do. Even a single cpu with a single core. The >>> only concern is if you are using a 10 Gbps network card. If money is a >>> concern, you are not going to be using a 10 Gbps network card. >> Other questions to ask: >> - - How many users will it be serving? >> - - How "busy" will it be? Even if you are only serving one system, >> will it be a streaming uncompressed High Def video server, or an >> MPEG-2 and MP3 server for 1 person.? > > Probably about 100-150 workstations.
Good to know. How many concurrent users? (I.e., they won't *all* be hitting the box at the *exact* same time, will they? I doubt it.) > This server will also run proxy, email and web, but my main concern was > NFS as I'm kinda new to it. > Basically, from the money we have available, it looks like I can > afford an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.67GHz, with a $150 Motherboard, or > 2 x Intel Xeon 5130 @ 2.0Ghz with a $450 Motherboard. > > I guess put another way, for a Sarge server that does pretty much everything, > would you rather have 4 cores at slower speed, or 2 cores at faster speed? For a multiuser system, *I* would go for more, slower CPUs. Each process gets more of a CPU that way. > Another problem currently, is I can't even install Debian on a test box that > I have. Intel motherboard with ich8 chipset. (would use E6700 CPU) > So, I'm wondering if a motherboard with xeon chips which would use the > 5000V chipset let me install the system. Why not an Athlon 64X2 single-socket board, or an Opteron 2xx dual- socket board? They have great memory bandwidth and an excellent SMP design. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFMaMzS9HxQb37XmcRAuopAKCGeeGmv7teGa1KYqCwesQ8E0BfgwCgslu4 Dl3uCKrptkppLhZ8pTZ5l3Q= =4VVS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
