Hi Jon,

Processing power is important, a month ago I had posted to the list and I
got some real good inputs from our gurus.

We use Sun Fire 6900 server with dual core processors, by merely upgrading
to high clock speed processors, we have observed improved performance in
read writes and also avoiding the backups from aborting with 155.

We backup arnd 10 TB a day and use 4 dual core SPARC procs of 1500 Mhz. I
have learnt from the list and some docs that having multiple media servers
helps see a quantum leap in performance.

Regards,
BIJU KRISHNAN

On 9/23/06, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) <JMARTI05 at intersil.com> wrote:
>
> I'm speccing servers etc and management ever wanting so pinch a penny
> wants to know how important dual processors are.  Not only is there the
> added server expense, but both Windows and NBU licenses for multiple
> processors are more expensive.  We're looking at Intel Dual Core Xeon
> 5060s w/ 2x2MB Cache, 3.2Ghz, 1066Mhz FSB on a Dell Power Edge 2950 w/
> 4GB RAM.  I originally spec'd two processors (two dual cores) which I'm
> certain will be quite powerful enough to drive 4 Gigabit nics to disk
> over fiber.  But how important is it, and can 1 do the job?  Anyone
> running anything similar?
>
> -Jonathan
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