On 11/10/2005, at 7:54 AM, Matthew Weigel wrote:
Why not look at quad-port GigE cards? I know for sure em(4) has
available
quad-port cards.
I will for the future.
It doesn't make it any faster as a server, either. ;-)
I've got an Ultra-Wide or Ultra2 SCSI card in my Ultra 10, and it
seems to
make a world of difference; the IDE controller is only used for the
DVD
drive.
Yeah I've heard that using SCSI in U5/U10's makes them run like whole
new machines. An old PII 300 I had gets about double the transfer rates
over the U10 with the same old 20G drive. Both running OpenBSD at the
time.
I think the U60/80 would be overkill, since you won't get the extra
processors... and I'm not sure how much the extra cache will help.
Cache
isn't always a winning way to go faster; it's only useful while
instructions and data that get cached get accessed multiple times.
Once
your cache gets large enough, adding more doesn't accomplish anything.
I'll hold off on that E5500 purchase then. ; ) I had thought that 4Mb
L2 would be beneficial for making release.
U5's and 10's are so cheap at the moment on Ebay. I picked up the U5 for
about $40 Aussie. I've seen U60's go pretty cheap too. I don't mind
overkill if the price is right (except when overkill is 25 amps, 3 phase
at 3.5kW, putting out more heat than your typical central heating). ; )
Shane J Pearson
