Re: an idea about dual cpus

Jeff Beley writes:
> In my experience overclocking has a very adverse effect on *NIX. I'm using a
> single PIII 500 with 256MB RAM on scsi hd's and my load peaks at around .7
> with ~=600 clients. I have previously ran squid on a lesser machine, with
> less clients, with ide hds and determined that ide is the bottleneck on
> performance. As to the idea of celerons, I wouldn't use them because of the
> reduced cache on the chip/board(you'll be lucky to get 512k cache). Just my
> opinion, I could be wrong.

Why would *NIX even know the CPU was overclocked? If you're speaking from
a reliability standpoint, then perhaps it might know. :)

I have a Pentium Pro 200 w/384MB, 2 x 9GB, 1 x 4GB (cache disks)
It does about 1.6M hits/day, 9.8GB data, runs at .5 load consistently.
We only have 37.50% Request hits, 21.02% Byte hits, mostly due to not even
disk space to cache everything. :)

-Andrew

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