On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:19:19PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Since Sun no longer makes cheap X2100 M2 (speaking of which,
> anyone aware of anyone selling decent AMD or Intel single
> socket quad cores with ECC memory and IPMI?) I've been looking
> at SuperMicro 5015A-PHF lately. It's not ECC, not super-powerful,
> but with 4 GByte RAM and a decent SSD it could probably host a
> few vservers. In terms of Ops/Joule it's probably even better
> than Opterons. At a price point of roughly 300 EUR and full
> IPMI it's hard to find anything comparable.
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-PHF.cfm
> Is it reasonable to assume that such a system could run
> about 40 mostly idling vserver guests at about 200 MByte
> memory footprint each, and 4 GByte filesystem footprint (on a 80
> GByte Intel 2nd gen consumer SSD, vhashify) each?
Send me one and I'll do the testing :)
yes looks good to me, i.e. I see no reason why not,
you might want to disable the HT part, as it isn't
really that performant on the atom series ... i.e.
you will have 2 cores instead of 4 virtual ones
HTH,
Herbert
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Received on Fri Mar 5 13:17:01 2010