tks for your reply again.
Both processors have a very small amount of cache. Maybe the Duron can
be faster than your pair of Celerons, but the only way to know it is
benchmarking both systems with the applications that you want to run.
maybe this is getting a bit offtopic, but what are the best benchmarks you
would suggest?
I'm looking for a disk benchmark, also. There is oe in the ports, that I
found (sorry, forgot the name) and used, but it got me some weird results,
with big differences at different runs... anything good to test on FreeBSD?
I also have the option of using a Socket423 Intel P4 1.4GHz on a Asus board
with 2x128MB RIMM... but this is all memory I can get on this board, I guess
though the proc is far faster than the duron or the 2 celeron's, because of
the RAM it'll run in all slower, right? On the other boards I get 768MB
SDRAM...
I'm asking mainly theoretical things here, as I won't be using the server in
full load at the beginning, so I can't really test what the limits are, but
it'll have peaks when doing some tasks from time to time, and that's why I
want to check on what you think the best (fastest and most stable) option
is.
I decided to go for FreeBSD 6.x anyway, because of WPA-PSK...
I am not saying that your pair of Celerons are crap or something like
that, I just want to remark that the performance boast with a SMP
system isn't linear, spreading jobs across processors is also a job,
and can be very intensive :)
yep, that's what I wanted to know, too, and what I thought about, too...
ANdrei
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