[Asterisk-Users] Processor

[steve]

On Monday 12 May 2003 09:28, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 08:00, WipeOut . wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am interested in the thoughts of the people who know the
> > architecture of Asterisk quite well..
> >
> > What I am interested in is the performace difference of Celeron
> > vs P4 vs Xeon.. I know Intel marketing says that servers should
> > be Xeon, Workstations should be P4 and desktops should be
> > Celeron and they are priced to the specific target market..
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> > My thoughts here are that the L1 and L2 cache are not critical
> > becasue the most important thing would be the handling of the
> > TDM switching (interupts per second).. so this means that there
> > probably isn't much difference between the different families
> > of processor.. and so you should be able to achieve a
> > comparible performance using a Celeron processor at a far
> > cheaper price..

The XEON chips have different size cache for each model of XEON.
This will make a huge difference in performance, and price.

Steve