John Drescher wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mark Nienberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For a new file server that doesn't really do much other than run samba, is
there any advantage to quad core CPUs vs dual core? Say the two options are
equivalent in price.
I have not seen much on my gigabit network (servers and clients). The
cpu usage is generally low even on single core servers with 5 TB of
software raid 5. With that said I did order a q9950 and a new
motherboard to replace a single core system today but that was because
of a stability problem and not for performance reasons. $450 US for
the mobo (asus p5q pro + CPU is certainly not going to break the
budget.
I guess what I'm wondering is will samba actually use all those cores or will it just
use one, in which case maybe I'd be better of with a faster dual core than a quad.
You're right though, that the server I am replacing is an older single core chip and
it doesn't have any trouble keeping up with demand, so probably any recent chip will
work fine.
Mark
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