On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, 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?
Go dual. SMP is kick-ass with Linux :) Get SCSI rather than IDE unless price is a HUGE issue. (You don't mention disk or RAM considerations). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
