Re: CPU question
Most of the time servers are I/O bound. So it would be wise to spend your
money on a good NIC, SCSI adapter, SCSI hard disk, fast (IO wise) MOBO, etc.
If you can re-use the P166 then do it, otherwise put a nice celeron in
your server and spend your money on the I/O stuff...
Regards,
Onno
At 05:19 PM 1/28/00 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
>Hi,
> I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much
> everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the
> load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22.
>
> In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is
> roughly the same. So should I get two slower CPUs, or one fast
> CPU. Which case will the server run faster/perform better?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>Shao.
>
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