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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:14:45 -0200
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for Plan9
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I have an MSI G31TM-P21 + q8200


http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=3Dproddesc&maincat_no=3D1&prod_no=3D1833


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wro=
te:
>> Which disk controller should I use for best performance and
>> driver support?
>>
>> AHCI based:
>> SB600
>> IHC9
>> Jmicron JMB363 (supported?)
>>
>> Marvel based:
>> Marvell 88SX6081
>
> this isn't a complete list of supported ahci or marvell
> parts. =C2=A0i don't know about jmicron support. =C2=A0i tried
> to add it without having any hardware to test. =C2=A0i have
> always chosen other hardware over jmicron. =C2=A0it seems
> to benchmark poorly and be unnecessarly incompatable.
>
> i have not done systematic benchmarking of the
> various parts. =C2=A0however ..
>
> 1. =C2=A0unless one needs more ports than the motherboard
> offers, i would stick with on-board ports.
>
> 2. =C2=A0note that the marvell 88sx card is pci-x but will
> function properly in a pci slot. =C2=A0the marvell 88se64*
> parts are a pci-e option.
>
> 3. =C2=A0if you set up a venti+fossil fileserver, you will have
> a quite seeky load and the performance of the controller
> should not be a big factor. =C2=A0but the performance of the
> disks will be.
>
>> For network cards the intel gbe cards seems to be the best?
>
> yes. =C2=A0the 82563 and 8257[12456] are particularly good.
>
>> Which CPU should I use? Can Plan9 use multicore processors?
>> Is it right that Plan9 runs in 32 bit modus (no need for a 64 bit
>> processor)?
>
> plan 9 can use multicore processors. =C2=A0but it does not recognize
> the hyperthreads on core i[357] and atom processors.
>
> - erik
>
>



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