Re: [hendrik@topoi.pooq.com: Is the AMD-64 ready for reliable use? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)]
On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:34, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> I'm considering buying a box and putting the AMD64 port of sarge
> on it.
we're running a production server on it. not had much testing yet, i'l know
within a month if its up to it :). its supported by the debian security team
though.
> I can see lots of problems with the AMD64 port on the mailing
> list, but that doesn't make it clear whether troubles are normal
> or unusual. Very few happy users ever write in to say how happy
> they are,
i'm one so far
> I have had it proposed to me that I might set up a server for
> my LAN (not the internet gateway) as a Sempron system running
> Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboard,
> an AMD Sempron64 2600, 512 meg DDR PC-3200 w/o ECC.
> to quote from the quotation.
> My question is, is the Debian AMD64 platform ready for such use?
> Presumably I'd be using the unofficial sarge release ... or has it
> become official in the meantime? Or is etch actually more reliable right
> now?
i'm running it as a production webserver, i trust it. i wouldn't even have to
think about running on a home lan.
> The server will initially be running an NFS server that serves from a
> software RAID (hard disks presumably partitioned using LVM). I'm
> considering putting everybody's home directory on it so that they will
> have their bookmarks, configurations, etc. available whatever machine
> in the house they are actually sitting at. But if the are running on
> one of the substantially less powerful machines, they will use the
> Sempron remotely using XDMCP or VNC. Oh, yes. One or two of my users
> are collecting video files (mostly .mpg). Would accessing them from
> another machine using NFS (100 MHz ethernet) be fast enough for them to
> view them? Even if two users did it at the same time? (not from the
> legacy 100MHz pentium, though, of course).
software raid was nice and easy to setup. 100mbps ethernet is plenty fast
enough for streaming a few reasonable mpegs at a time (mythtv is commonly
used to stream multiple uncompressed/not much compressed DVB streams over
100mbps lan - i used to)
> Any comments on whether this plan is feasible? Do others have good
> experiences with that motherboard? Or should I backtrack and specify an
> old reliable 32-bit Pentium instead?
no idea about the hardware.
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