Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-09 Thread Hiten Pandya
--- Joesh Juphland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on building a true multi-user system (as opposed to a NFS server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many people with many shells will be doing many things. Two things have been decided: - it will run freeBSD - it will

processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-08 Thread Joesh Juphland
I am planning on building a true multi-user system (as opposed to a NFS server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many people with many shells will be doing many things. Two things have been decided: - it will run freeBSD - it will be dual processor - So what two processors should I

Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Joesh Juphland [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I am planning on building a true multi-user system (as opposed to a NFS server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many people with many shells will be doing many things. Two things have been decided: - it will run freeBSD - it will be dual

Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:36:18PM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote: So what two processors should I use ? Coming from a Sun hardware background, I originally thought to use PIII Xeons .. since they have a lot of cache, and fast cache. I was thinking 512meg cache p3 xeons running at 550mhz.