Re: Best Hardware Combination

["IeS" <ies@eramuslim.com>]

> What network card? Also, did you do any sysctl tuning?

3com 3c905c Tornado. 
No, I don't know much about performance related sysctl tuning 

>> I mean the best/fastest hardware combination for webserver and
>> mailserver.
>>
>> A week ago I installed OpenBSD 2.8-stable on i815e/aha29160/Seagate
>> Barracuda 18G/512M RAM/3C905C/PIII-800.
>>
>> Compare with Slakware-current using ezpublish-2.0, using ezhttpbench
>> webserver throughput under OBSD is 1500 pages/min. and under slakware
>> is 4500 pages/min.
>>
>> I use mysql as db and qmail/vmailmgr as mail system.
>> My SCSI disk sync. at 40 MHz, but under Slackware 160 MHz.