Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-09 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP machine? Any no. one CPU is powerful enough. pentium 200 class machine does have no problems working a

Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-09 Thread Danial Thom
--- Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that > is only acting as an NFS server > > and nothing else, is there any advantage to > using an SMP machine? Any > > no. one CPU is powerful enough. pentium 200 > class machine does have no > problem

Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-09 Thread Crispy Beef
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP machine? Any disadvantage? Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron instead of a 2.2ghz opteron

Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP machine? Any no. one CPU is powerful enough. pentium 200 class machine does have no problems working as NFS server for 100Mbit/s LAN at full speed, assuming di

speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-08 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP machine? Any disadvantage? Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron instead of a 2.2ghz opteron for example)? I am planning for a Sp