Hi > > From: Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > also, i was mistaken when i said that only the memory size was wrong > > > with system. the processor is inadequate too: Intel Pentium 4 > > > processor 2.4GHz with 512K enhanced cache. it would be better to have > > > 2 1.3GHz piii processors, or at least one xeon xp, or p4 3.06 with > > > multipath capabilty. > > > > Have you tried a dual Athlon box ? About $1k will do motherboard, dual > > 2100+ processors, case and associated stuff. If you choose a > > motherboard with quad memory slots, you can buy 4* the cheaper 1GB. > > In my experience, that'll outperform a single P4 processor handily. > > Adding a gigabit card for the client side interface isn't much either. > > I'm a strong advocate for SCSI for multi-user systems. GB for GB it's > more expensive, so I tend to use slightly older, smaller capacity drives. > Although IDE has largely caught up in terms of i/o bw, the SCSI command > queuing advantage has yet to be matched, making for much smoother > server performance. Of course also off-loads a lot of the disk i/o burden > from the CPU, so it's like having a faster CPU.
I'm looking for info, not a flame war! In my experience SCSI offers no advantages. My bus-mastering IDE does a sustained 40M/sec (1G files) Subjective experience, and iozone benchmarks show little advantage of one or the other (SCSI-Box: Compaq ProLiant UW SCSI vs no-name Athelon both around 1GHz). (compaq is *NOISY*) Install RH from CD is about the same time. Where does the SCSI advantage show (I/O benchmarks are on a busy server) Also 'older' discs are slow, so double negative advantage. (Older expensive baracuda multimedia seagate discs managed 10M/sec sustained) James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
