--- Joesh Juphland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am planning on building a true multi-user system > (as opposed to a NFS > server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many > people with many shells > will be doing many things. > > Two things have been decided: > > - it will run freeBSD > - it will be dual processor > > ----- > > So what two processors should I use ? Coming from a > Sun hardware > background, I originally thought to use PIII Xeons > .. since they have a lot > of cache, and fast cache. I was thinking 512meg > cache p3 xeons running at > 550mhz. > > But what about a modern athlon MP processor ? Much > less cache, but it runs > at 266mhz, and it is much faster ... 1700mhz or so. > > One specific question might be, at what bus speed > and mhz speed do the > advantages of a "good" processor like a xeon start > to not matter ? >
hi joesh, i think the two Xeon Processors will do the job. As long as you have that good cache with ya... thanks, regards, Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== thanks, regards, Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
