OK, so I'm an old fuddy dud. I went to Midwest Electronics yesterday, high tech central for me (5 years obsolete), and saw Ed there max out a P2 350MHz IBM. He plays with kfract (a fractal geometry program in KDE). He showed me, with some delight, how he can bury the CPU meter by setting the iteration level to about 100,000. Anyway, Midwest Electronics loves Linux and wants to expand the demos. Somebody came in their store suggesting the latest Mandrake (instead of my old SuSE 7.0). I think that is a good suggestion. Webserver, SQL server, and 2 mail servers. On Friday 11 January 2002 07:26 am, you wrote: > What do those machines do that maxes them out so? > > > Does anybody really need such a CPU?? Check your CPU load meter and you > > > will likely find a large excess capacity. > > > > We have four servers running at 85% CPU / 95% Mem for close to 15 hours a > > day- these are Dual 1.3GHz processor machines.. so I would have to say "yes," at least I do. > > Jay