On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 02:12:09PM -0400, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > >dual-core processor. I know that dual-core is now usually very > >low-end (or laptop) but creative suggestions are welcome. Ideally > >we would like PCI-e > > buy a quad core machine and turn off two cores in the bios.
Buy a whatever and turn off all but two cores on the kernel command line. max_cpus=2 You want an Intel LGA1366 chip with an X58 chipset; 32 PCIe lanes are available. (If you were asking this question 1Q2012, the LGA2011 would become preferable -- 40 lanes of PCIe v3.) For I/O, you might want to look at an on-PCIe SSD, like the FusionIo cards. Expensive, yes -- but compared to the SAS license, probably not so bad. And the performance is amazing, if you can fit your current dataset. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss