dual cpus would probably be best, dual cpu mainboards are usually higher quality then single cpu mainboards, which helps. load of 5 to 22 eh..damn.
what does that machine do? nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: shao >Hi, shao > I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much shao > everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the shao > load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22. shao > shao > In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is shao > roughly the same. So should I get two slower CPUs, or one fast shao > CPU. Which case will the server run faster/perform better? shao > shao > Thanks in advance. shao > shao >Shao. shao > shao >-- shao >____________________________________________________________________________ shao >Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ shao >Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ shao >University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | shao >Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | shao >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ shao >_____________________________________________________________________________ shao > shao > shao >-- shao >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null shao > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:37pm up 161 days, 11:45, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.11, 1.05