On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an
NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an
SMP machine? Any
no. one CPU is powerful enough. pentium 200 class machine does have
no problems working as NFS server for 100Mbit/s LAN at full speed,
assuming disk is able to cope with.
disadvantage?
Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron
instead of a 2.2ghz opteron for example)?
no. with slowest available AMD64 CPU it will still be much
overpowered. consider using that machine for other tasks too.
but you will need motherboard with something better than 33Mhz 32-
bit PCI and lots of ATA/SATA ports, or extra controllers plugged if
you like this server to really be able to do 1000Mbit/s speed.
yes, PCI-X and Areca 1130 12 port SATA Raid card.
I wonder how FreeBSD compares to Solaris 10 for nfs serving.
"Client" servers are a mix of FreeBSD and Solaris 10.
Thanks
Chad
card. I assume lots of RAM for the OS to use to cache would be
desirable and GB ethernet.
all depends of the type of workload. in case of mostly large file
streamed big cache won't help much. in case mostly small subset of
files will be used, big cache may be a benefit.
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