From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGFyU-00027k-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:18:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l71FGe3d002058; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:16:40 GMT Received: from smtp17.singnet.com.sg (smtp17.singnet.com.sg [165.21.6.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l71FGbug002005 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:16:38 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.101] (bb121-6-81-193.singnet.com.sg [121.6.81.193]) by smtp17.singnet.com.sg (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l71FGabk032472 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:16:36 +0800 Message-ID: <46B0A3D5.6080203@singnet.com.sg> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:16:37 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 75485a6b-65e7-47f1-9436-7efd33fecfff X-Archives-Hash: 0232647f6794ddabbc58857db5c37048 Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and running at 64bit. The server needed to built is for the following apps. Hardware. 1. Tyan Tank GT20 (B5191) 2. 2 x Sata drives 3. Software raid 1 4. 4Gb ram ecc 5. Intel Core2Duo E6420 or Intel Core2Quad E6600 Apps. 1. Gentoo linux 64bit 2. Apache 2 3. MySql 4. Postgres 5. Qmail 6. Pure-ftpd 7. Mod_perl 8. php 9. ruby Will all the instances of the apps be shared among the cores? Please share the comments. I would really like to save some money. If the 2 core can do the job there is quite a bit of savings buying just the 2 core. The other option is just to go with Pentium D with 2 core. That one is a real saver. Please advice. P.V.Anthony -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list