On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:38, Mike Horwath wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > > Hi, I am hooking in here without any intention to fire things up but > > isn 't this discussion certainly useless? Not only 4.11 is gone but > > also i386 is practically marked to die out as well as UP systems > > are. > > Wow, I hope not. >
only a matter of time I guess, next year we will have 64bit quad-cores and I am really not sure if anybody will build 32bit versions ever again > Unless you are separating out i386/i486 and such. > are this dinos still serving somewhere? > Many people refer to i386 as all 32bit x86 systems. > I would say this preference is mostly set by beeing afraid of migration (lots of things can come up when migrating a production server) or by lack of money to buy some nasty HW ... > > All platforms are going to be 64bits and memory of 4GB or more is > > not so rare anymore. Allmost all AM2 MBs support already 16MB. Even > > most professionals are not using SCSI anymore but Sata-II. > > I disagree. > I didn't say I agree but probably also only a matter of time for me > SATA (of any gen) still does not perform like SCSI. Let's just look > at spindle speed alone ignoring the other benefits of SCSI. > I had no time to test it on a life webserver and probably can't do it so soon but I tell you that a 10K Raptor is faster then a 15K 320Mb SCSI when compiling world or untarring large files. Also NCQ is not reserved to SCSI anymore so when you see the price then it is becoming a valid option for small servers. Hans -- Prowip Telecom Ltda AS 22706 A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
