Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS
server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP
machine? Any disadvantage?
Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron instead
of a 2.2ghz opteron for example)?
I am planning for a Spring project to make an nfs server that serves to
multiple web servers / application servers using an Areca 1130 SATA
raid card. I assume lots of RAM for the OS to use to cache would be
desirable and GB ethernet.
Have recently built a machine for just this purpose too, although it runs
Linux, the hardware requirements will be the same.
We needed a huge amount of storage on the network so went for the cheapest
Opteron available (still overpowered), we put most of the cash into a decent
motherboard with gigabit ethernet ports and fast PCI-X 3Ware raid cards to run
the hardrives (the machine has over 3Tb of storage as it's used for video work
- 16x 300Gb SATA drives). Also 1Gb of RAM.
The bottlenecks on a server like this are always the network and drives, so
look at those for performance.
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