New server advice - quad core any special settings needed?

[Krsnendu dasa]

On 24/08/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
>
> > AMD64 x2 6000
> > Intel Duo Quad 6600
> >
> > It seems that the Intel would be better due to quad core and faster
> speed.
>
> While I presume four cores is better than two, I really don't know which
> will work out better.
>
> > Both systems would use 4 GB DDR2 800 RAM and 4 SATAII 16MBcache 7200rpm
> > 320GB HDDs. (We were thinking Linux software RAID 10 or 01 would be
> best.)
>
> http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt
>
> "Performance-wise both RAID01 and RAID10 are functionally equivalent.  The
> difference comes in during recovery where RAID01 suffers from some of the
> same problems I will describe affecting RAID5 while RAID10 does not."


Thanks.  I still haven't figured out the difference between RAID01 and 10,
but it is good to know which is better.


> Is the quad core the best choice? Are there any special settings needed to
> > get he maximum performance out of it?
>
> 64-bit edubuntu should probably give you better performance, but if you
> need flash and java, you're probably better off using 32-bit with the
> server kernel to give you use of the full available RAM.


Yes I was planning to use the server kernel.

Thanks for the prompt replies.
Krsnendu dasa
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