El lun, 20-06-2005 a las 00:30 +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange escribió: > How hard is it to use Debian AMD64? > > I run about 15 Debian servers for various clients. These are all 32 bit > machines, mainly dual Xeons or Pentium IVs; we use Debian on our Apple > ibooks too. All of our machines run stable + a few things from testing + > occasionally something from unstable. > > We are getting ready to purchase a machine for a web application > prototype. I won't go into the nitty gritty of what the machine is to be > used for, but suffice it to say that we want good Postgresql 8.x read > and write performance and enquiries on the postgres list brought us > here. > > Basically, I'm keen not to make a lot of work for our team by supporting > unusual hardware. However, we are keen to experience the benefits of > using 64bit! Does Debian AMD64 have installers, eg netinstallers? Does > AMD64 have stable, testing and unstable package trees? > I'm using a server (opteron) with a batch java app and postgresql The perfomance is optimal, better than Xeon and P IV I'm using sarge and it's very stable (no problem reported for the last 4 months) and the developers of the app are very satisfied I'd installed at first time postgres 7.4 and later I'd compiled a 8.0 whitout problem I hope this help you > Thanks for any comments, you'r wellcome > Rory > > p.s. > Our standard environment includes: > > Apache 1.3x/Apache 2.x > PHP4 > Python 2.3/2.4 including all standard modules > Perl including all standard modules > Postgresql 7.4/8 (I believe I can compile the latter from the debian > source packages myself) > Exim4 > screen > netfilter/iptables > etc. > > One possible configuration we are looking for is as below: > > Motherboard : Dual AMD Opteron,[X2881G2NR],AMD8131, > Up to 3x PCI-X,S-ATA Raid,2x Gigabit LAN > Chipset : AMD-8131 > Info : 5 x PCI (Total); 1x PCI-X for 1U and 3x PCI-X for 2U; > Graphics Slot = None > Ports : 2xUSB V2.0 [Rear],PS/2 Kb, Mouse,Serial,Parallel > Maximum : RAM 16GB using 8 x 2GB > On-board Graphics : Integrated ATI 8MB Rage XL > Std HDD Controller : IDE UDMA 100 (Primary & Secondary > On-board SCSI : None > On-board RAID : S-ATA Raid (Raid 0, 1, 10, 4 drives) Silicon Image 3114 > On-board LAN : 2 x Broadcom 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet > On-board Audio : None > CPU : 2 x AMD Opteron 242 1.6GHz (2-way) - 1MB Cache > RAM : 2,048 MB Total using 4 x 512MB PC3200 DDR Registered ECC > (Use Only In Pairs) > Chassis : 2U C215S, 8x H-Swap SCSI Bays, Slim CD and FD bays, > 660mm, 2x 64bit PCI, 510W (Black) > Rail Kit : Telescopic Rail Kit included with case > RAID Controller : LSI MegaRaid 320-1, 64 Bit PCI, Ultra320, 64mb, > Single channel, Raid levels 0,1,3,5,10 > SCSI HDD : 6 x 36GB 15,000 rpm Ultra320 > Ethernet : 1 2 x Broadcom 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet > on-board motherboard > > -- > Rory Campbell-Lange > <rory@campbell-lange.net> > <www.campbell-lange.net> > > -- Angel Claudio Alvarez Usuario Linux Registrado 143466 GPG Public Key en http://pgp.mit.edu key fingerprint = 3AED D95B 7E2D E954 61C8 F505 1884 473C FC8C 8AC4
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