RE: [TCLUG:8911] Pentium Pro server

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

My dual PPro/200 at work is serving 50 concurrent users accessing Appgen and
Recital(xBase) databases.  The main advantage I've found to having two
processors is that a stuck process can shoot one of them up to 100% usage,
but the other keeps on going.

If you have the spare parts, can't hurt to try it.

--
Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Wilson [mailto:wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 7:55 AM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:8911] Pentium Pro server
>
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Does anyone have a gut-level feel for how capable a dual Pentium Pro 200
> machine would be as a server compared to, say, a PIII 500? I'm thinking
> about slapping together a dual P-Pro system using a mix of spare and new
> parts, but I'm not sure it's worth it now that much newer systems have
> gotten quite cheap. BTW, let's assume SCSI in both systems. I'm
> considering this system for Web serving mostly. It would probably be doing
> a lot of dynamic content so I suspect CPU horsepower is more of an issue
> than with more static Web serving. Any ideas?
>
> -Tim
>
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