I don't have an answer for you, but its a great question! The bptm processes eat a considerable portion of my (Solaris) server. The more concurrent streams, the more bptm processes. With 40-50 streams, my cpus are maxed out.
How did you come to choose 5000 over 5100 series? cheers, wayne Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote, in part, on 9/22/2006 3:00 PM: > I'm speccing servers etc and management ever wanting so pinch a penny > wants to know how important dual processors are. Not only is there the > added server expense, but both Windows and NBU licenses for multiple > processors are more expensive. We're looking at Intel Dual Core Xeon > 5060s w/ 2x2MB Cache, 3.2Ghz, 1066Mhz FSB on a Dell Power Edge 2950 w/ > 4GB RAM. I originally spec'd two processors (two dual cores) which I'm > certain will be quite powerful enough to drive 4 Gigabit nics to disk > over fiber. But how important is it, and can 1 do the job? Anyone > running anything similar? > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
