Most of the time servers are I/O bound. So it would be wise to spend your money on a good NIC, SCSI adapter, SCSI hard disk, fast (IO wise) MOBO, etc. If you can re-use the P166 then do it, otherwise put a nice celeron in your server and spend your money on the I/O stuff...
Regards, Onno At 05:19 PM 1/28/00 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: >Hi, > I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much > everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the > load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22. > > In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is > roughly the same. So should I get two slower CPUs, or one fast > CPU. Which case will the server run faster/perform better? > > Thanks in advance. > >Shao. > >-- >____________________________________________________________________________ >Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ >Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ >University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | >Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|___/ >_____________________________________________________________________________ > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
