> I've got a question concerning hardware. We're planning to replace our SUNS > (E3500,E3000,E450 etc) with multiprocessor XEON boards. Is there any > recommendation or experience about this type of hardware ?
A lot of it depends on whether you're talking about P3 Xeons or P4 Xeons. P3 Xeons are not worth the cost, in my not-so-humble opinion. We replaced a 4x700 MHz/1MB P3 Xeon machine with a 2x AthlonMP 2000+, and performance increased substantially, dropping the system loads in *half*. If you're talking P4 Xeons, I can't comment on their effectiveness vs. AthlonMP's - but they sure do come at a price premium. steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
