On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:13:27PM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > 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
Again, I hope not. > > 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 ... Ah, hardware bigotry. Your colors are showing. > > 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. And your testing methodogy was...what? Small servers? No, let's talk about 'servers', not just 'small servers'. Very high disk I/O requires more than NCQ and 10K RPM disks, though if you have a 'need' of disk space over performance, then SATA will be your bitch as the cost (vs size) of SCSI vs SATA do change things. Not all of us use small servers, though. -- Mike Horwath, reachable via [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
