On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Can any guy recommends me a Dual CPU motherboard for web server running on
> Linux with following spec. in brief
Firstly - I assume you've looked at the type of web serving you're
going to be doing?
If you're beating out mostly static pages, then you're not going to
gain much by having 2 processors, and would be better advised spending
the money on your i/o system - scsi / raid.
If you're doing lots of CPU intensive CGI's / databasing, then I'd go
with a dual celeron on a BP6 motherboard - though if you're worried
about Intel pulling the SMP support from the celeron, then you'll want
a slot-1 based board. Personally, I've have a dual slot 1 gigabyte
BXD on my desk since January, and have been happy with it. It's *not*
particularly heavily used though.
> Dual AMD K6-2 400-450
K6's can't do SMP. There is no chipset / mobo available to support it.
> or
> Dual Intel Pt II 400-450
> 32 bits AGP slot
> Dual on board ATA 33/66
ATA 66 - only board I know that has this onboard is the Abit BP6. It's
socket 370 (celeron) only though.
> Moderate price
BP6 is good for price. We recently deployed 3 dual-celeron 433 BP6
boxes for 3D-CAD workstations and they've been fine (SMNP bugs in the
CAD software not withstanding).
I really would recommend you do look carefully at how busy your
definition of busy is though (and how busy you can actually be given
the connectivity that the machine will have), and size the RAM and
I/O system accordingly.
Mark
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