Re: Multi processor System

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck@snew.com>]

I was trying to figure out how to address thing, but henning
did pretty well.

I'm writing this from a (40MHz) Sparc 2 with 32MB that's been on
the net for several years serving static web pages for perhaps 40
sites.  Low traffic.

Number of sites is moot -that's a moment for apache to lookup
which site goes to which dir.

Static pages: CPU is not the issue.  The DISK is the issue.
The NETWORK is the issue.  The CPU will be bored on a Pentium/150
or a quad processor Alpha@1.2GHz.

Flash, GIF, html - apache streams the file to a network port,
that's all.


>  "It's my workstation for complex tasks and my server"
Well, that's the bad idea.  Perhaps look at the Mac for graphics
work.  You could also find a used or new mac for OpenBSD.
Don't mix tasks like that.  When you must reboot, well, your
server goes down.  Also the needs are entirely different.

So look at a cheap AMD with a pair of disks.  Perhaps
mirror them. Or get an HW RAID controller and 4 disks
(1 pair striped, then mirrored).  $400 will get you
4 40GB drives resilently and quickly serving 80GB.

And able to saturate well over 10MB/s connections.
With a bored CPU.

THen buy a nice desktop machine for yourself with all
the money you saved.