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

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:36:56PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> 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!

Yes, but the needed balance between CPU and IO is different, and the
Xserver has a different ratio of the two than is ideal for many
(most?) serving tasks.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd