Re: New machine spec: any comments?

1998-08-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > As for the 512 vs. 1GB of RAM question, unless you purchase Pentium II > XEON processors, it is supposed to be not practical to use more than > 512MB in a Pentium II system because they can not cache more than that. > And since nearly all PII mother

Re: New machine spec: any comments?

1998-08-15 Thread Christopher Barry
I don't know know if you have a choice of who you're buying from or not already, but if you do, you should check out www.pricewatch.com. You'll be able to get some 450MHz PIIs and 128MB sticks cheaper than anywhere else. In my experience and the experience of many others it seems that contrary to

New machine spec: any comments?

1998-08-14 Thread Tony Robinson
I'm planning on building several Debian/Linux compute and disk servers, the aim is for maximum remote "workstation" performance with no frills. The target hardware is: * Dual processor PII 400MHz (450MHz if they were available) * 512Mbyte or 1Gbyte RAM (likely to be limited by 4 slots at 128Mbyte