Re: 1GB ramdisk

["Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>]

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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