Any serious production servers yet?

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Tue May 30 09:20:53 PDT 2006


On Tue, May 30, 2006 11:20 am, Danial Thom wrote:
>
> I guess I should have qualified my question. If
> you're pushing less than 100Kb/s then there's
> really no reason to spend 3X the dollars on a
> multi-core system. So the only real value of an
> MP system is how it performs under heavy load, if
> you're talking about a server and not a desktop
> box.

Is there a certain specific setup and threshold you are looking for? 
Like, performance of DragonFly with an MP kernel on a multi-core processor
on a system acting as a firewall with traffic at level X?  (Guessing from
your writing above)






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