Use of floating point on typical mailserver

[Greg Matthews]

Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> 
> BTW my new email server is a new Dell 2950  (Centos 4.4) with 6 x 73GB
> 10k SAS RAID 5 dfor mail store and hardly get a loadave reading 0.00
> with 140 imap users...8 GB ram and 2 twin core 3.2 Xeons (I think can't
> remember exact CPUS). Going to do SIP and IM on it as well soon. A LOT
> cheaper than a T2000....

maybe - we get the academic discounting of course. T2000s are likely to 
plummet once the new Niagra chips are shipping as well. Also, we deal 
with *lot* of email, currently split over 3 disparate machines. 32 
concurrent threads sounded like good way to go with a mail relay but its 
going to be reeeal slow if it needs to do any amount of FP. I can also 
sell it to the money men on running cost!

G
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