Re: hardware question

A note on your last point. We have a bunch of older SUN boxes around
here. e450, e250, etc.

The 2MB L2 cache un the UltraSparc 2 does allow for a high load. And for
their era they were sweet chips, still are. But the #1 reason in my mind
to move from Sun to an Lintel box would be cost. Sun is expensive. It
seems to me that the Intel/AMD world has moved forward at a faster pace,
definelty more bang for the buck (Althons are great).

My 2 cents.

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:25, Adam Erickson wrote:
> I assume you'll be running Linux on this?
>
> We're running a 4x700 right now, it's very dependable. But be careful,
> you're getting yourself into (as far as Linux goes) very high end hardware.
> It's easy enough to find people who can support a uni or dual-proc box.
> Finding expertise on 4-way or higher systems is more difficult. A wide
> variety of kernel issues can present themselves. Memory addressing comes to
> mind. Not many Linux systems have 4+gb of ram, how did you set up bigmem?
> These things you may not even notice for a year until you grow to tbe point
> where you hit the choaker.
>
> But don't mind me, I've just run into one this last week and it's driving me
> nuts. (Some weird kernel bug, that is) Of course, none of this matters if
> you're not running Linux (go you) but then again, I've heard Slowaris x86
> is.. well. slow. And you wouldn't be seriously considering NT would you?
> Does *BSD have those SMP bugs worked out?
>
> I would highly recommend you purchase your hardware through a solid company.
> Get Dell, IBM or Compaq to build you a machine. Xeon machines are very
> complex, you'll save yourself time, headaches and (lots) of money by going
> with the big guys.
>
> I am curious, why are you getting away from Sun? I've been under the
> impression that Sun hardware kills IA32 when it comes time to play. (eg.
> high load) Am I reading too much FUD these days?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:38 AM
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> > Subject: [ADMIN] hardware question
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello *,
> >
> > I've got a question concerning hardware. We're planning to
> > replace our SUNS
> > (E3500,E3000,E450 etc) with multiprocessor XEON boards. Is there any
> > recommendation or experience about this type of hardware ?
> >
> >
> > kind regards
> >
> > -andreas
> >
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