On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Krsnendu dasa wrote: > AMD64 x2 6000 > Intel Duo Quad 6600 > > It seems that the Intel would be better due to quad core and faster speed.
While I presume four cores is better than two, I really don't know which will work out better. > Both systems would use 4 GB DDR2 800 RAM and 4 SATAII 16MBcache 7200rpm > 320GB HDDs. (We were thinking Linux software RAID 10 or 01 would be best.) http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt "Performance-wise both RAID01 and RAID10 are functionally equivalent. The difference comes in during recovery where RAID01 suffers from some of the same problems I will describe affecting RAID5 while RAID10 does not." > Is the quad core the best choice? Are there any special settings needed to > get he maximum performance out of it? 64-bit edubuntu should probably give you better performance, but if you need flash and java, you're probably better off using 32-bit with the server kernel to give you use of the full available RAM. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
