Re: Why 4 Procs
- From: Dennis Depp <dennis.depp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:27:56 -0500
We have been running our mailbox servers with 2 processor Dell 2650s.
Occasionally CPU will peak during a virus scan but most of the time
CPU usage is not a problem. We are running about 4500 users on our
Exchange server.
Denny
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:45:45 -0800 (PST), C Drawers <cdrawers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
>
> 4 Processor servers seem to always been chosen for mailbox servers. Since a
> comparable equipped 2 processor server is often 1/4 the cost and it seems
> the latest 2 proc box has equivilant ghz power as a 4 proc box, it sure
> seems like 2 proc boxes are the way to go.
>
> Can someone help me with this? I'm wondering if there is something magic
> about 4 proc. I've seen in the Exch2k3 performance white paper something to
> the affect of "Exchange scales well to 4 procs", but I don't see anything
> definitive or at least something worth buying a 25k (4 proc) server as
> opposed to a 6k (2 proc) server.
>
> Any crazy theories or even better... concrete theories with data to suppor
> the theory?
>
> Thanks,
> C
>
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