Can you send some of that reliability ammo my way - there's a few intel
stalwarts whose idea's i'd like to shoot down :)
regards,
Javier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2001 18:15
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: Benchmarks
>
>
> I thought I'd post some very interesting benchmarks that I
> suspected to be the case, but never have been able to confirm
> it myself. These are especially enlightening to me because of
> the seemingly blind adherance to Intel in the server world
> that we are a part of.
> AnandTech recently did a review of the new Dual P4 Xeon's.
> One benchmark was partcularily interesting.
> They recorded a 30 minute transaction log of their forums,
> which runs FuseTalk. During the 30 minute recording there
> were: 105267 selects, 4984 updates, 701 inserts and 5 deletes
> performed on the database. They then ran the transaction logs
> on each of the platforms they tested.
>
> Heres what they found:
>
> Dual P4 Xeon 1.7 GHZ
> 14m 49s
> Dual P3 933 MHz
> 22m 34s
> Single P4 Xeon 1.7GHZ
> 22m 31s
>
> and the shocker
>
> Single AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz
> 18m 6s
>
> Here is a link to the article:
> http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1472
>
> Considering the huge price gap between a dual P3 and a run of
> the mill Athlon this seems incredible to me.
>
> My only comment wuold be, the next time you throw money at a
> problem. You might want to throw it in the right direction!
>
> I cant say how many times, the Intel drones in this industry
> have questioned me when I in passing mention that I only use
> AMD chips. It just comes down to price for me, but now I can
> stand on firm ground and tell them to go waste their money!
> Of course, someone will eventually try to pull the
> reliability card. It will be of no use, I have had ammo there
> for a while now.
>
> jon
>
>
>
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