On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:27:14PM -0600, Dave Schroeder wrote:
On Dec 23, 2005, at 6:24 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Xserve HP Proliant DL145
1RU form factor 1RU form factor
dual 2.3ghz G5 Dual 2.2ghz Opteron (faster available)
1gig RAM 1gig RAM
1 x 80gig SATA 1 x 80gig SATA
pci video card integrated video card
dual gigabit ether dual gigabit ether
DVD/CD-RW drive DVD-ROM drive
$4099 $2317
No. The only thing limited about the Mac OS X Server 10-client is
concurrent file sharing users ONLY. Everything else is completely
unlimited. (The HP also doesn't include an OS, which may not be an
issue, but it's still a point of information.)
Then I stand corrected. I didn't include the cost of an OS because
my original remark was based on a x86 Linux server running DSS vs an
Xserve running OSX+QTSS.
Also, a dual 2.3 GHz Xserve G5 configured as above is $3249 ($2724
education and government) - that would be an Xserve Cluster Node,
which is all you need to meet the above specifications.
Now you're rigging the comparison so that it is even more of
an Apples to oranges (ugh...pun) example. The cluster node Xserve
has no externally accessible drive bays, no CD/DVD drive, and no
video card....and it's still $500 more expensive. Also, I'm sure
HP offers government/educational discounts as well so that's really
just a red herring.
I agree that for your task, some other server may be a better value.
But in some instances, the G5 is still a better value than the
alternatives:
http://www.bayarea.net/~kins/AboutMe/CPUs.html
The task at hand, and the one for which I solicited information about
benchmarks, and the only one relevant to this list, is a streaming
server.
That is the only task I'm interested in. You are the one who
seems to
have taken some sort of offense and widened the discussion. All I
asked
for was whether or not anyone on the list had benchmark numbers for
similarly configured systems. That's it.
Even though Apple generously hosts this list, I see people discussing
other architectures all the time. So....has anyone done this type of
direct comparison? That would probably be a very enlightening test
since DSS and QTSS share so much code. I'd be curious to see which
architecture/OS scales better as a streaming server.
Thanks to George for the pointer towards the load testing code.
Perhaps I can wipe one of my dual 2.5ghz G5's, load OSX server, and
then do a comparison myself if nobody has seen any other similar
comparisons.
Best regards,
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