[geeks] Sun Fire V120 Server -vs- Apple Xserve

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:20:37PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> On a server CPU doesn't usually matter as much as I/O throughput
> (including memory throughput).  (unless you're really only using your
> servers for CPU tasks like graphics rendering or code cracking or gene
> folding or other scientific modeling, etc.)

err.. or databases, or dynamic web content, or just about anything else
which runs on a server.  Yes, I/O is important, but CPU is at least equally
important in most servers - even if only to drive the IO!

> on its own channel, amazing PCI/AGP throughput, and on top of all that
> it's got four ATA/100 controllers, one for each disk, and also

IDE? On a server?  Haven't we had the tag queueing argument on this list
already?

  Scott