[SunRescue] Re: need some faster SBUS CPUs in Europe

[Mike Nicewonger]

Of course the one thing everyone forgets. Does the 670 have the right PROMs
for the big CPU's?

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: <nick at snowman.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Re: need some faster SBUS CPUs in Europe


> Talk to bridgepoint about a pair or quad of hypersparcs.
> Nick
>
> On 14 Mar 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>
> > On 14 Mar 2001 12:29:12 -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> > > I thought I heard a "Gregory Leblanc" say:
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody have some fast SBUS CPUs for sale/trade/partial trade
in
> > > > Europe?
> > >
> > > Would I get yelled at for mentioning that you're probably going to get
> > > nothing higher than an AMD K5-133 for an sbus card? :-) You're looking
for
> > > MBus, but we all know what you meant :)
> >
> > D'oh!  At least you knew what I was talking about.  I'm really not doing
> > too well this week, it must be a couple of days of getting up at 6:30,
> > and going to bed at 5:30 (both am).
> >
> > > > A pal of mine is running a 4x690MP with dual SM41s right now,
> > > > and we just loaded that machine up (it's hosting ftp.gnome.org, and
> > > > pumping out about 8MB/sec of traffic).  This pretty much saturates
those
> > > > two SM41s, so they'd love to get a pair of SM81s, or something along
> > > > those lines.  Anybody have a line on these?  Thanks,
> > >
> > > I may have SM81s to spare sometime soon... haven't plugged this SS1000
in
> > > yet to test it. However, I'm baffled by the cpu being your issue.
8MB/sec
> > > is what, 67mbps? Pretty close to the capacity of a be card, and, well,
at
> > > least 67% of optimal capacity on a 100mbps connection anyway. Unless
your
> > > ftp stuff is doing compression you might do well to upgrade the
network
> > > card to hme or add another one.
> >
> > Well, the card is capable of pushing approximately 10MB/sec, but not in
> > the current machine, because of limited CPU power.  The problem here is
> > that there isn't enough CPU left to do monitoring when this machine is
> > pushing 8MB/sec.  There are also a few other services that run from this
> > machine, so it would be nice to have a bit more processing power
> > available.  I'd offer them some of my CPUs, but all I've got is a pair
> > of SM41s myself, plus this SM81 that's already in use.  :-)
> >
> > > Or is there something I'm missing?
> >
> > No, probably not.
> >
> >     Greg
> >
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