I would recommend the 64-bit system, but make sure your controller card will work in it, first. The bottleneck will most likely be the incoming network connection (100MB/s) in any case. Assuming, of course, that you have more than one disk. With the 64-bit system, you'll run into fewer issues involving VA (virtual address) fragmentation in the kernel, which can sometimes be a problem on 32-bit systems.
--Bill On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:00:24PM -0800, Matt wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently planning a new home file server on a gigabit network > that will be utilizing ZFS (on SXDE). The files will be shared via > samba as I have a mixed OS environment. The controller card I will be > using is the SuperMicro SAT2-MV8 133MHz PCI-X card. I have two > options for CPUs/motherboards: > > AMD Athlon64 3000+ (64 bit) > DFI LanParty UT 250gb (NForce 3 based) motherboard > 32 bit PCI slots only > 2GB RAM > > or > > Dual Intel Xeon 1.6GHz CPUs (32 bit) > ASUS PCH-DL motherboard > PCI-X slots @ 66MHz > 2GB RAM > > I am trying to figure out where my bottleneck will be for file > transfers. Will it be the controller card running in a regular PCI > slot on the AMD setup? Will it be the 32 bit Intel system? Or will > using samba overshadow either of the hardware options? Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Matt > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
