Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

[dtutty@porchlight.ca]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700
> "michael" <michael@etalon.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote
> > > 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. 
> > This server will also run proxy, email and web, but my main concern
> > was NFS as I'm kinda new to it.
> 
> Sorry to join this thread a little late, but do you really need all of
> those services on one server? I consider it a pretty big security risk
> to have private data files on a public e-mail/web server. If it were up
> to me, I would be looking into a way to get 2 cheap servers instead of
> 1 expensive server.
> 
> HTH,
> Jacob

Or, is there a secure way to virtualize the server like an LPAR for
debian, in which case the more cores the better,

Either way, the more cores the better when the issue is throughput like
a server rather than computation like a gaming machine.

Sometimes I wish someone would make a case that would take two MBs :-)

Doug.