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From: tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer)
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Subject: Re: report on Sun PC-NFS 3.5
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cd5340@mars.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>to buy another 386-PC than to leave the server non-dedicated.  If PC's
>cost as much as SUNs, I'd say there is a point to the wasted processing
>power, but they're not.  Not using 67% of a 386 isn't a big deal, not
>using 67% of a SUN 4/??? is a very big (and expensive) deal.

Compare an SLC with harddisk to a similar equipped 386 machine. Where's the
difference ? At least here in Germany i can get an SLC with 600 Mb and
streamer for around 15000,- DM (~7500 $) which is close to what I'd pay for
a similar PC.

On the other hand CPU power doesn't count. If you have an NFS-Server with n
MIPS and a second one with x*n MIPS you won't see an x time increase in
performance on the fast machine. The only thing that counts is disk i/o
speed. So unless you do real computing on the server, why spend a lot of
bucks for a fast (in terms of CPU power) server like a Sun-4. Better buy a
slower (and cheaper) one and spend your money for fast (and many) disk
drives.

			ciao
				-Torsten
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