Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Elling
Siegfried Nikolaivich wrote: But for ZFS, it has been said often that it currently performs much better with a 64bit address space, such as that with Opterons and other AMD64 CPUs. I think this would play a bigger part in a ZFS server performing well than just MHZ and cache size. I will no doub

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Rob Logan
with ZFS the primary driver isn't cpu, its "how many drives can one attach" :-) I use a 8 sata and 2 pata port http://supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nForce/H8DCE.cfm But there was a v20z I could steal registered ram and cpus from. H8DCE can't use the SATA HBA Framework which only suppo

[zfs-discuss] Re: x86 CPU Choice for ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Siegfried Nikolaivich
> But for ZFS, it has been said often that it currently performs > much better with a 64bit address space, such as that with > Opterons and other AMD64 CPUs. I think this would play a > bigger part in a ZFS server performing well than just MHZ > and cache size. I will no doubt be selecting a 64-bi