In my experience, CPU power is much more important on Solaris than on 
Linux or Windows, mainly because the Solaris network drivers are such 
crap.  It is useful when searching the recovery catalog, but with CPUs 
these days, you really don't see much practical difference.  Watch your 
performance, make sure you're not maxing out your CPU, and then double 
what you think you need (for growth).


> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:00:37 -0400
> From: "Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)" <JMARTI05 at intersil.com>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] How important is Processing Power?
>
> 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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