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On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:20:29 GMT, Harvey <harveyb999_at_beliveau.cc>
wrote:
>Welll.... let me clarify a bit. I am adding a server to an environment
>and the proposed box is a Sun V880. It's not a matter of replacing an
>existing OS with another, that box will be upgraded in the process of
>moving into a test server capacity while the new box moves into the
>production role. I'm looking for some 'quick and dirty' points to make,
>i.e., improved I/O performance, stability, etc.
Some high quality articles which explain why putting more than two processors in a machine on any Intel (not Itanium) or AMD processors is useless. And the cost of a V880 is rather close from the cost of an 8 processors PC-based computer.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000338 http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000226 http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000275Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 15:50:22 CST