Hail all,
I currently have some medium to big iron ( Sun Enterprise 3000 quad
CPU ) functioning as an NFS application server in our shop. It is my opinion
that I could replace this with an SMP linux machine, thereby freeing up the
Sparc to perform platform dependent tasks such as compiles. I would
guesstimate that currently I am serving around 150-200 concurrent users peak
on the Enterprise. My first assumption is that the Enterprise is overkill
for the task at hand. The second is that SOME hardware configuration of a
linux machine could handle this load. The question is, what would I need to
get? A full blown Quad Xeon 450 rig? Can anyone give me a real world example
of a linux box running in this type of capacity? Am I crazy? I am asking for
CPU usage only. The I/O and storage on the machine would be a RAID 5
hardware implementation connected via UltraSCSI 2 to the box.
regards,
Timothy MacDonald
Landmark Graphics
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