[olug] Wanted: Intel Hardware Server recomendations

[Mike Peterson]

Did you also run iostat or sar?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Payne" <Payne at MattPayne.org>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Wanted: Intel Hardware Server recomendations


> Quoting Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com>:
>
> > So what exactly do you need?
>
> Need:
>  Case, Mother board, Processor, Memory
>
> Like
> > CD-RW
> > NIC
> > Video Card
> > Floppy?
> >
> > With a budget of $400.
>
> Is the $400 reasonable?
>
> > Looks like you could go with a P4 setup.  Mobo w/built in video and
> > NIC.  Lots of high bandwidth memory.  Maybe some software RAID for
> > improving disk performance.
>
> This sounds good.    Our hunch, from the current box, is that it's RAM and
CPU
> bound.   The drives are IDE.
>
> What's a good way to measure if a linux box is disk bound?   Is there
something
> better than vmstat and friends?
>
> Thanks! -Matt
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