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Re: server hardware




On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Mike Almogy wrote:

> Hi all.
> I'm planing to buy a new server that will be runing Linux.

good. what is it going to be for? file services? compilations? internet
services? database?

> I want to buy duel CPU board with 2 celerion A class 300 MHZ proccesors
> and 128 MB SDRAM 100 MHZ memory chip.

have fun. if you can make it work, please tell us and Intel, because they
claim Celerons would never run in SMP.

> Is that ok ? i meen to use Celerion proccesors on a server.
> Just to remind you all, Pentuim II have 512 KB cache, Celerion A class have
> 128 KB cache and regular celerion have none.

just to remind YOU, Celeron A has the cache running at CPUI speed like the
Xeon, a regular P2 has it running at half the CPU speed. Currently selling
Celeron A's are also overclock-able up to 450 Mhz with enough cooling, the
next generation may be locked against it in hardware.

> 
> As i was told , if i have enoghe memory then the lake of  large cache
> buffers on the CPU itself is not so bad. Is that true ???

SDRAM, it may not be too bad.

> Another option is to buy the same memory and a single CPU board with
> pentuim II 350 MHZ.  is that better ???

depends for WHAT. dual Ppro would be much cheaper and more than enough
these days (I have one installed here, and it handles serious loads
great). as for file services, the bottleneck is not the CPU. I serve a net
of55 computers here, Samba and NFS on 100BaseTX from a Pentium 90 (non
SMP)

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