Thread: Ram or CPU? Whats More Important???

Thanks to everyone who has voted so far, some interesting results and comments. I actually thought that RAM was going to be more important but cpu has a steady lead in the poll atm.

I'd lean towards RAM but its close.

It's all about the RAM if you ask me. I'm using a box with only 250 MB of it at the moment, and it's a real pain in the ass to create a .torrent file or to check files for that matter. It takes me almost 2 hours (yes, two hole hours) to create a .torrent file for a 17 GB folder :-/

RAM, always RAM. It's all about RAM.

But not really, what it really is about is HDD speed, but RAM helps there tremendously to conserve HDD access via caching.

not even BW is the greatest factor, it's HDDs, all about HDDs.

Hell, our 100Mbps servers do as much or more traffic than our 1Gbps servers at OVH. Only our new 1Gbps servers can do a ton more.

It always boils down to storage speed, how many peers you can maintain, how many concurrent uploads you can maintain.

Ofc, at certain point other things get more important. but peak bandwidth, cpu, is the most irrelevant factors there are. It's what you can average 24/7, and what it boils down to at the end of the month.

In our experiments, every single time the best one is the one with most HDDs :)

Ofc, if you use Deluge then CPU is most important factor, it's insanely heavy. But as long as you use rTorrent, uTorrent most important is Storage performance (combination of HDD count, per HDD IOPS, per HDD BW etc.), Link Speed, Ram, and in that order.

Guess why i'm hoping to get a 140+ HDD, with 10+ SSD cache drives cluster online late spring ;) That for max 300 customers would be über high performance :)

More important is for sure The CPU..

RAM when you have 1000+ torrents

CPU is only important if you run Deluge or tons of extras, but does not ever beat RAM.

Unless you got like Celeron 1.8Ghz and 16Gb of RAM, then the CPU might become bottleneck.

CPU simply gets starved of data to process when all I/O is saturated. It's very rare we ever see above 5% CPU usage.