samba - Dec 2008 - samba on quad core vs dual core

For a new file server that doesn't really do much other than run samba, is
there any
advantage to quad core CPUs vs dual core?  Say the two options are equivalent in
price.

Thanks,

Mark

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mark Nienberg
<gmane@tippingmar.com> wrote:
>> For a new file server that doesn't really do much other than run
samba, is
>> there any advantage to quad core CPUs vs dual core?  Say the two
options are
>> equivalent in price.
>>
>
> I have not seen much on my gigabit network (servers and clients). The
> cpu usage is generally low even on single core servers with 5 TB of
> software raid 5. With that said I did order a q9950 and a new
> motherboard to replace a single core system today but that was because
> of a stability problem and not for performance  reasons. $450 US for
> the mobo (asus p5q pro + CPU is certainly not going to break the
> budget.
>
> John
>


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