[thelist] Multiple Processors???

Ryan Finley RyanF at SonicFoundry.com
Fri Feb 23 01:33:15 CST 2001


There is a great article on AnandTech about how they purchased their latest
server upgrade.  They cover most of the issues discussed here, but in much
more depth...

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1401&p=1

I'm going to use their article as a reference when I update my website,
http://www.surveymonkey.com (shameless plug)


	Ryan Finley
	President - SurveyMonkey.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Baratta [mailto:Anthony at Baratta.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:55 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Multiple Processors???


At 09:31 PM 2/22/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks for the information Anthony. We were
>considering 256 MB of RAM but it looks like you are
>suggesting that that might not be enough. Why do you
>install hard drives in pairs?

With Win2K 128MB of RAM is the "base" memory foot print for the OS itself, 
IMHO. Everything after that is for your applications. If you are running a 
MS SQL server under 'moderate' load your going to need the overhead. If you 
expect higher traffic, then go to a gig. Seriously.

We use RAID5 and Disk Mirroring as our fail-safes against hard drive 
crashes. With drives so cheap we are currently mirroring 75 GB drives for 
each system (we use 2U rack mount machines so more than 2 drives in the 
system is a very tight fit). The overhead to the OS to do mirroring is 
minimal, IMHO.
---
Anthony Baratta
President
Keyboard Jockeys


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