Well, actually, it's not the NICs that pushed me away from this server,
but the expansion slots.
I intend to insert my dual port Intel, and it's PCI-X, but the Sun only
has PCI-e, so it was no good.
Also, today, looking on ebay, I realized that it's not such an easy task
- to find a modern server with a dual core AMD (second generation) and
at least 1 PCI-X slot. The same is with Intel. And I already have 4
PCI-X cards, so I'd rather use them.
By the way, will AMD 275 do the job? Or is it too old and weak?
Regarding the 2 CPUs, I'm not sure I need them, cause I'll only be using
2 cores(each for 1 card), and as far as I saw on the previous servers -
the other 2 cores were just idle 99% of the time. (Although they were
logical cores via HT, but I don't think it makes much of a difference).
And now I'm about to ask a very stupid question: is it possible to just
resize the packets? (because I understand that this way I'm gonna have a
better throughput). I know changing the MTU is not advisable.
thanks,
Lenny.
P.S. How's IBM x3550? any opinions?
Bill Marquette wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Lenny five2one.le...@gmail.com wrote:
I got offered a Sun Fire X2200 with Opteron Dual Core 2210(that's 1.8GHz).
Will that do it? (for ~150kpps)
That's a little slower than what I use in prod (2218's), but it
should work - I'd want to make sure there were two physical dual core
CPUs in the box (paranoia - and well...that's what I tested ;-P).
Double check the NICs in that box. I believe they're broadcom and
nvidia (yes, Sun does a mix and match on the same motherboard! You
get two of each.) Also, one of the NICs doubles as the network port
for the service processor, so if you're inclined to use the SP, you'll
need to account for that dual use on the NIC port 1.
Yeah, when I looked at the X2100's, they had 2 nvidia and 2 broadcoms
onboard. The real issue wasn't the nics...other than they all suck
IMO, but that to use the lights out management, you lost both
broadcoms (unless you run Solaris on them - that _might_ have changed
in the last couple years). Now, I'm not a huge fan of broadcom nics,
but leaving me with only nvidias meant I had a machine with four
completely unusable nics and I was _still_ putting a quad port nic in
the box, thus costing me more than an equivalent machine from any of
Suns competitors.
--Bill
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