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 > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="leitlhttp://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE