On 24/08/07, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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."
Thanks. I still haven't figured out the difference between RAID01 and 10, but it is good to know which is better. > 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. Yes I was planning to use the server kernel. Thanks for the prompt replies. Krsnendu dasa
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