On Aug 16, 2007, at 17:20 , Martin Cracauer wrote:
The Xeon Quad core just got a major price reduction though, so now
I'm looking at a dual quad xeon (with 5320, 1.68Ghz or 5330 2.0GHz)
instead...
You still have to weight whether there is any application that you
need that is not multithreaded.
Well the most load (at least from the current situation) will
probably be mysql, and apache with mod_php. And that should be pretty
multithreaded..
The "default" mobo at the supplier (www.mullet.se) uses the X7DVL-i
board, which takes 6 FB-DIMMs on two channels (max out at 16 gig)..
That math doesn't play.
Thats what the specs says.. 6 dimm sockets, altough it actually
doesnt say anything about number of channels, that was from Mullets
site. mobo spec says 16 gig max.
But I'm thinking about getting the upgrade mobo instead, X7BDE, with
8 slots on 4 channels with max 32GB (and also full KVM features in
the IPMI slot..)
But I'm curious if this kind of platform will ever be able to use all
this? Disk access, memory bus & cpu etc.. lets asume I max this
system in the future with 32 gigs of mem and 8 2ghz cores.. Will I
ever be able to use that much with a raid5 (or 10, whats the lists
opinion on this? 5 or 10?) config on a PCI-X slot?
Much of ... what?
I can't parse this sentence.
Hehe.. I'll give it another try :)
If I push the system to the max cpu/memory wise, will I ever make any
use of 8cores each 2Ghz? Memory can always be used I guess..
For a pure fileserver all this is overkill.
Oh yes, no this is not a fileserver. Mainly web hosting (combined
mysql/php)
But realistically, for a php,mysql,apache,java etc machine with a
number of jails, i wonder if I will ever be able to use this much
power or if I should aim lower and if the box gets too loaded I'll
get another one..
The moment php and Java are involved you are not strictly disk-bound
anymore :-)
Very true.. It would be the mysql processes that would be limited.
Johan
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