Well, its tough to compare system configurations in a very general way. I've
run any number of different systems. I can tell you that Sun has some very
nice boxes. A 4 way SMP server with a couple gigs of ram and 1-2 internal 36
gig drives can be had in the 25k price range. They're perfectly
On Thursday 04 April 2002 09:48 am, you wrote:
I think you'll find that the RISC systems have fewer processors and run at
lower clockspeeds for the same total performance. 100k is a HUGE amount of
money to drop on a system. You could get 2 full racks of high performance
1U systems, including
At 10:28 AM 4/4/2002, you wrote:
On Thursday 04 April 2002 09:48 am, you wrote:
I think you'll find that the RISC systems have fewer processors and run at
lower clockspeeds for the same total performance. 100k is a HUGE amount of
money to drop on a system. You could get 2 full racks of high
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DN In the last episode (Apr 04), JW said:
DN Heh. plus the maintenence nightmare of managing 48 servers, 96 mirrored
DN boot disks, 96 power supplies, etc etc..
DN
DN A comparable system to the Dell link you pasted is the Sun Fire v880.
DN For
In the last episode (Apr 04), JW said:
I was already looking at these... Does anyone have any experience
with MySQL a v880? Someone on another list was saying:
You've got to remember that in a lot of scenerios, more processors
can degrade preformance instead of enhancing it. 4 Dual
In the last episode (Apr 04), JW said:
On Thursday 04 April 2002 09:48 am, you wrote:
I think you'll find that the RISC systems have fewer processors and
run at lower clockspeeds for the same total performance. 100k is a
HUGE amount of money to drop on a system. You could get 2 full
Trying to send this again... SPAM filter messing with me...
this is a query about what hardware might make for a really good sql server
There :-p
Hello,
I need some advise.
We are about to purchase a huge system for use as a DB/web application server (mostly
DB).
I'd like to point out that
