Just an initial suggestion... Maybe we could order a couple AMD machines (i.e. 2 or 3) and test them out as apaches against the current apahes. If they don't seem to give us as much preformance/price on apache and search, we just get P4's for the other 2 or 3. Even if the AMD's are a little lower in performace (which all AMD benchmarks I've seen in the past 2 years seem to disagree with) they still might save us enough money to allow us to justify getting them over the P4s. Of course, we could try and find volenteers with the exact hardware we want to try and benchmark the prociessors for us, but I don't think that will happen.
Also, a little off topic, but have we considered using CentOS on our machines? I just found out about it recently. Basically, it's a redistribution of redhat enterprise. It's more stable than Fedora so it might be worth using.
On 4/19/05, Chad Perrin perrin@apotheon.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:02:20PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Note that my own personal prejudice runs in favor of AMD; I buy Athlons for my home PCs and hiss and boo Intel at every opportunity. But if we're going to make purchasing decisions explicitly based on a price/performance claim I think we need something more than warm fuzzy feelings of fighting The Man.
Plus, y'know, Intel may be The Man in this comparison, but AMD is The Other Man.
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