RE: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-19 Thread Matthijs Breemans
: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2? >Another site you can look at for reviews which is far less game/windows/office oriented is tweakers.net< I found the one review in English. While the site is named tweakers.net, an English word, but most of the reviews and text seem to be in Friesian,

RE: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-19 Thread Jack Toering
ebsd-performance@freebsd.org Cc: Jack Toering Subject: Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2? On Wednesday 18 July 2007 06:05:00 Jack Toering wrote: > >You probably don't need to follow every move, but it might make sense > >to do > > some actual research if performance matters t

RE: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-18 Thread Jack Toering
>Another site you can look at for reviews which is far less game/windows/office oriented is tweakers.net, http://tweakers.net/reviews/661/7 for a good test of a woodcrest based server.< Actually that is on the Clovertown, but it's a good read. I'll check out the others. That is more web server f

Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-18 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 06:05:00 Jack Toering wrote: > >You probably don't need to follow every move, but it might make sense to > > do > > some actual research if performance matters to you? You don't even say > what your performance critical server is going to be doing ;)< > > At the moment I'

RE: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-18 Thread Jack Toering
>You probably don't need to follow every move, but it might make sense to do some actual research if performance matters to you? You don't even say what your performance critical server is going to be doing ;)< At the moment I'm not too sure either. :) The reason I say this is we have a 246 Dual

Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-18 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jack Toering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > These are things I need to hear bacause it doesn't make sense for me to > watch these things until I'm in the market because the technology moves so > fast. > > Thank you very much for your response! You probably don't need to follow every move, but it

Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Anderson
-Original Message- From: Claus Guttesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:59 PM To: Jack Toering Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2? It's been a couple years since I had to buy another dedicated server. Back then

RE: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-17 Thread Jack Toering
From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:52 PM To: Jack Toering Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2? On 7/17/07, Jack Toering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been a couple years sin

RE: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-17 Thread Jack Toering
in the market because the technology moves so fast. Thank you very much for your response! -Original Message- From: Claus Guttesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:59 PM To: Jack Toering Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-17 Thread Claus Guttesen
It's been a couple years since I had to buy another dedicated server. Back then the AMD Opteron had it hands down. The trade press seems to be indicating the pendulum has swung the other way and AMD is in trouble, especially since the Barcelona miss. Also, over the past two years I've read how

Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-17 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 7/17/07, Jack Toering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's been a couple years since I had to buy another dedicated server. Back then the AMD Opteron had it hands down. The trade press seems to be indicating the pendulum has swung the other way and AMD is in trouble, especially since the Barcelon

Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-17 Thread Jack Toering
It's been a couple years since I had to buy another dedicated server. Back then the AMD Opteron had it hands down. The trade press seems to be indicating the pendulum has swung the other way and AMD is in trouble, especially since the Barcelona miss. Also, over the past two years I've read how c