[cod] Mmmm... cores

[escapedturkey]

Charles Goldsmith wrote:
> The only drawback will be IO usage, a good raid array striped will be
> a must, but even then, with 20 or so game servers, they will be
> competing for resources on the drive access, or that is my best guess.

RAID 10 using 6 SAS 15k RPM Drives

iostat
Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 01/08/2009

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           28.66    0.03    2.28    0.16    0.00   68.87

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda              32.93       458.96       753.82   38381751   63040612

RAID Specs:

	Drive Controller 	Adaptec \ 31605 \ SATA/SAS RAID

   	Battery 	Adaptec Battery Backup Module ABM-800

   	Hard Drive 1 	Seagate Cheetah ST3300655SS
   	Hard Drive 2 	Seagate Cheetah ST3300655SS
   	Hard Drive 3 	Seagate Cheetah ST3300655SS
   	Hard Drive 4 	Seagate Cheetah ST3300655SS
   	Hard Drive 5 	Seagate Cheetah ST3300655SS
   	Hard Drive 6 	Seagate Cheetah ST3300655SS