"Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com> writes:
> 2. Disk type - use SCSI, not IDE. IDE takes too much CPU. If you're just
> trying to copy a file, that's not bad - but if you're trying to process DB
> queries at the same time, it's bad.
I'd drop SCSI and spend (some of) the difference for more RAM. IDE
performance when using DMA isn't bad at all.
> 4. CPU's - you may not need a 1 GHz. Find the "sweet spot", which is
> probably an 866 or 933. The difference won't be that great. If the
> difference between a 933 and a 1 GHz chip is going to make or break it, you
> probably need a quad-CPU solution to allow for growth and expansion.
As a general advice, that would be a good one... but the 1 GHz chips
are rather cheap nowadays, as they are more than a year old.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
