Hi list, I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. As I do not have another equivalent machine, I prefer to ask before trying myself. I quite happy with the performances of my laptop (centrino duo) under 7, and hope my old server will be as happy as my laptop. thanks in advance, -- MaXX
> Hi list, > > I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 > at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the > SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql > databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. > > As I do not have another equivalent machine, I prefer to ask before > trying myself. > > I quite happy with the performances of my laptop (centrino duo) > under 7, and hope my old server will be as happy as my laptop. > > thanks in advance, > -- > MaXXFreeBSD 7 will be doing a lot better there, since FreeBSD 6 does not scale so well. You may want to check these: http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/more-is-better http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0 http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/4cpu-pgsql.png http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/p3.png Regards vermaden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Graj za darmo! Wejdz do swiata wojny wampirow! http://link.interia.pl/f1cb6
MaXX wrote:> Hi list, > > I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. > > As I do not have another equivalent machine, I prefer to ask before trying myself. > > I quite happy with the performances of my laptop (centrino duo) under 7, and hope my old server will be as happy as my laptop. > > > thanks in advance, > -- > MaXXMy hacked up 386 showed gains going from 6.2 to 7, the big win that I've noticed is scp throughput, I can sustain 40 to 45kbps where in the past the box walled at around 30kbps. Apache seems to have less latency responding to gets also. I'm just running a 7b3 kernel at the moment, I'm going to have to repartition with a lot more swap space to be able to build a 7 world (When did the ram use for a buildworld skyrocket?!) but even with this setup, 7 + ULE is a win for me. My other test case is a dual P3 1ghz box, running qmail, and moving from 6 to 7 has given me a decent boost in mail throughput capacity. (The box can now sustain approx 250 messages a second where before it would start backlogging before 200 messages a second.) http://www.x386.net/about.html Josh C