Source Tar Ball Installation

[T MANIKANDAN-PKXR74]

>From our testing we have observed that the DHCP is rather I/O intensive
operation than the CPU intensinsive, also at any given time time the
application utilize only one core irrespective of number of cores.

My hardware has 2 way Quad core that is 8 Core in total with 2.6 GHZ
speed.

Will share the results of Intel soon.


Regards
Mani

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Alan Clegg
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:01 AM
To: Users of ISC DHCP
Subject: Re: Source Tar Ball Installation

Brad Dameron wrote:
> What is the speed of the CPU's in these servers? This will make the 
> biggest difference. Also note that a AMD CPU seems to out perform all 
> of the others. This is due to AMD having the memory controllers on the

> CPU instead of on the motherboard. A AMD 6400+ X2 (3.2Ghz) would give 
> better performance over a quad core Intel processor at 3Ghz.

I'd propose that the more gating issue on a system running ISC DHCP is
the speed of the disks and the ability of the underlying operating
system to drive those disks at full speed.

AlanC