darkwalker said:
I’m not trying to whine just stop you from wasting your money. The current server is a dual proc dual core opteron (opterons’s have up to 4 cores with their 2000 model line) 250 2.4ghz with 6 147gb 15k RPM SAS drives in a RAID 5 config for “security from failure” without sacrificing performance. This system can also be upgraded by simply replacing the chips with the true quads that AMD is releaseing. Intel is 2 duals built on the same proc not a true quad. This system speced with this hardware today is still a $10,500 box. So in the end the new server may have faster processors but with the 25% util the server has been running over the past 30 minutes, dosn’t look like your touching the current power. The disk I/O is whats going to kill you, and unless your going to spend the money for the drives, with your spindle count, your not getting around it.
Of course the main problem with the new server is the fact that no one from off-campus will be able to play on it and the latency will go up no matter what the hardware. IT’s not going to make the concessions like they have with the current system. So someone will have to plug it up in their room. Now the campus external firewall will block all traffic that starts from off-campus and tries to access it. IT has also made several policy changes on the packetshaper to prioritize the game traffic from the current server. Without those policies, the traffic will get absorbed in the general ResNet traffic.
IT’s kicking you off the box? They havn’t said anything like that. Sounds to me like they gave you a way to access it through an administrator who won’t try and take down the system for fun and you don’t like it. Not to mention that this web site is run on another server that IT gave you. Considering the fact that the game club was never going to have remote access to the server when they started, I think IT’s been awful nice to you.
Not really interested in getting into an argument with you or anyone else but just because you pulled the specs off of HP’s website doesn’t mean thats what is in the box running. That server has a pair of “single core” opterons and a lot of mis-matched memory. So far as the “spindle” count, RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives and if I’m not mistaken, thats what that box is running. RAID 5 has nothing over RAID 1 except it uses two of the three and stripes them and keeps a duplicate of the info on the 3rd drive for security. Which, while may be a bit faster and more efficient doesn’t make it any safer.
So who are you? You seemed to have made an account simply to come on here and tell us what we “shouldn’t” do. So own up or not. Without any actual knowledge of who you are, why should your advice be taken into any consideration?