[thelist] Multiple Processors???

[Aaron Johnson]

Hi Asif,

I'll weigh in with some pointers rather than straight advice.  Go and check
out your hardware vendors site (Compaq, Dell, HP who ever...) and search for
"capacity planning". You'll find some interesting articles on server sizing,
hard drive recommendations and configurations, and relevant to this
question, processor recommendations. Here's a couple I found from some
cursory searches:

Web Server Performance Comparison for Microsoft Internet Information Server
http://www5.compaq.com/support/techpubs/whitepapers/404a0597.html

Dell Server and Storage Planning Guide
http://www.dell.com/us/en/air/topics/products_spg_pedge_spg.htm


Microsoft has some great articles on MSDN re: Capacity Planning as well.
Check those out.

Know Your Limit: The Capacity-Planning Tool Nobody Knows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/feature/server042798.asp

Capacity planning
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/default.asp?url=/WINDO
WS2000/en/advanced/help/planning_capacity_planning.htm

Or check out my search:
http://search.microsoft.com/us/SearchMS25.asp?so=RECCNT&qu=capacity+planning
&boolean=ALL&i=00&i=02&i=04&i=06&i=08&i=01&i=03&i=05&i=07&i=09&p=1&nq=NEW


HTH's

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-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Asif Suria
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:02 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Multiple Processors???


I am not sure if this question is appropriate for this
list or not. I am new to this list and have found it
very useful these last couple of weeks. If it isnt
please let me know and my apologies to all of you.

I was looking into the configuration of a web server
that my organization was interested in buying and was
trying to decide if a single more powerful processor
server (such a Pentium III 1 Ghz processor) would be
better than using a dual processor server (such as 2
Pentium III 866 Mhz processors).

I know that the Operating System distributes the tasks
between the two processors but there is always the
overhead of distributing the tasks and retrieving the
results. the operating system that we are considering
is Windows 2000 server.

Please let me know if any of you have any ideas or
suggestions.

Thanks,
Asif

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