* Gerhard den Hollander (gerhard@fugro-jason.com) [030901 01:04]:
Let's say for mail or Database server... would there be significant benefits from having a Dual Opteron over a Dual Xeon, and stuff like that?
Mail server, I don;'t think so. Dqatabase server, yup, if the database is so big it needs more then 3.5G to fit completely into memory.
I'd have to agree with Gerhard on the mail server answer. We just put 5 v210 1U Sun's (dual 1.4ghz UltraIII's) as new mail servers into our main cluster last week. The first of them had 10k SCSI drives because that's what it came with and this was a test box at first. It seemed to choke on quite a bit less work then a machine (Sunblade 2k) that had cpu's 500mhz slower..the difference between the two was the machine with the slower cpu's had 15k SCSI drives in it. I rebuilt the v210 with new 15k drives and it blasted. It's because most mail servers need io more then they need cpu power..tons of read/writes. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.