Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?
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On 10/14/06 21:15, michael wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote
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>> 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.
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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.
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