On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:07:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com> writes: > > > 2009/2/21 Igor Támara <[[igor@tamarapatino.org]]> > > > > Hi, at some Datacenter here on my country they only want the > > machines to be installed with RHEL or Suse, every time I dig more > > into those distros I fall in love more with Debian. This is why I'm > > asking about machines that have many cores and lots of RAM and > > plenty of disk. > > > > > > Here (at my country) big means more than 4x4 cores , more than > > 16Gb of RAM, and more than 1Tb on disk, excluding clusters, also SAN > > are good to know about. > > > > > > If Red Hat can support it, I don't think that there's any reason Debian > > couldn't. > > I think the limit is 1024 cores. Or was that fixed to allow more? > > As for ram that really is a cpu/architecture limit and you won't be > able to find a motherboard that supports as much ram as the cpu(s) > could handle. > > More than 1TB on disk? Doh. 1TB fits on a single disk. Anything up to most enterprise site don;t use 1TB size disk, if you want performance you go spindles, there might be 8 disks (number pulled from the air - based on raid6 + spares) behind 1TB > 16 TB is quite trivial. Beyond that you start to hit the limit on > filesystem size with ext3 and have to use xfs or ext4 or something. Or > you have to partition the space iinto 16TB chunks. Also > 16 disks > requires a big enough case or external storage. For that I would look > into external enclosures with SAS connector. Don't use SCSI or FC. > > MfG > Goswin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." - George W. Bush 01/01/2000
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