From: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
To: "James E. King, III" <jking@ariessys.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 1GB ramdisk
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:09:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990429105157.23748A-100000@as200.spellcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04020a00b34e1e944f31@[198.115.92.60]>
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, James E. King, III wrote:
> Someone suggested using alpha which would solve all of my problems. True,
> but where can I find a quad processor 500MHz alpha box for around $25,000?
> Let me know. Last time I checked, the list price on an AlphaServer 4100
> configured this way was over $100,000.
I'm going to play a skeptic here as I think Xeons aren't the best use of
people's money, but that's just my opinion. What are the actual
bottlenecks in your system -- remember that filesystem access and vm
operations are still serialized in 2.2, so going from 2 to 4 cpus may not
get you the performance improvement you deserved. A dual processor 21264
box with 512M of RAM goes for ~$15000 (see http://www.dcginc.com/), which
is worth considering.
-ben
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