Andrew Piskorski said:
> more complicatd of course, but if you were going to end up using, say 3
> * 2 cpu FreeBSD front-end web server boxes, that's no different than how
> you'd run 6 * 1 cpu Linux boxes.
There likely will be a big difference, the 6*1 CPU solution is likely
cheaper and delivers much better and more predictable performance! This is
because you won't end up with a skewed CPU load with one doing all the
page serving/Tcl work and one only running a DB proxy. You'll probably end
up with one CPU under utilized.

I would say: If you are set on using 2 CPU boxes, use Linux. If you really
want BSD, use only single CPUs for the front-end.

Bas.


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