No feedback yet, though I'm sure there are some other like-minded individuals out there chomping at the bit like us to see Astlinux running on 64bit Opterons as they are real power-house platforms. And don't let the Sun brand full you. These are very inexpensive but robust 1U servers that can be had for sub-$1k if you don't buy all the frills.
Regarding scalability, or where these systems stand against "high-end" servers I would say these are nice mid-range boxes, capable of doing fairly heavy lifting. We use them in-house to burn in our fonebridge devices and at 120 simultaneous calls (4x E1s) the CPU load barely flinches. Of course mileage will very depending on what you are doing with those 120 calls and these numbers are by no means a benchmark but the general consensus is that the Opterons are very Linux/Asterisk friendly. We'll keep playing with this devel environment in the hopes that we can get a x86_64 image out of it and welcome any hints or feedback from the community. Cheers, Mark Redfone Communications -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Gary G. Hendershot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Did you get any feedback ??? Your experiment is interesting to me, I just > don't have a clue how to help you with it ... Seems most folks are mostly > interested in running Astlinux on smallish embedded system type hardware ... > > > I would love to hear back how well it scales up to high end server hardware > ... But you are headed into territory where I have never been ... Closest I > have been is installing on a dual P3/1.2GHz which went together without so > much as a whimper ... But I have never tried to optimize for 64bit which I > suspect is the hurdle you are trying to jump ... > > G.Hendershot > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:35 PM > To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash > Subject: [Astlinux-users] Devel Build for Opteron Target > > We are trying to build the development environment for a Dual Core Opteron > target. Our build environment is; > > *Sun X2100 M2 running 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 11 22:59:20 EDT > 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > * Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1210 > > Has anyone succesfully built for this environment or similar? I'm unable to > get past the required Kernel-headers dependency when building; I'm currently > downloading vanilla 2.6.18 to see if that helps. I'll be happy to publish my > working images to other x86_64 Astlinux fans out there if I can get some > help with these first obstacles. > > The following is my error message printout. > > ************************************************************ > Build the shared library loader with early debugging support > (SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG_E > ARLY) [N/y/?] n > Compiler Warnings (WARNINGS) [-Wall] -Wall Manuel's hidden warnings > (UCLIBC_MJN3_ONLY) [N/y/?] n > + ./extra/scripts/fix_includes.sh -k '' -t x86_64 -n > > usage: fix_includes.sh -k KERNEL_SOURCE_DIRECTORY -t TARGET_ARCH > > This utility scans the KERNEL_SOURCE_DIRECTORY directory and checks that it > contains well formed kernel headers suitable for inclusion as the > include/linux/ directory provided by uClibc. > > If the specified kernel headers are present and already configured for the > architecture specified by TARGET_ARCH, they will be used as-is. > > If the specified kernel headers are missing entirely, this script will > return an error. > > If the specified kernel headers are present, but are either not yet > configured or are configured for an architecture different than that > specified by TARGET_ARCH, this script will attempt to 'fix' the kernel > headers and make them suitable for use by uClibc. This fixing process may > fail. > It is therefore best to always provide kernel headers that are already > configured for the selected architecture. > > Most Linux distributions provide 'kernel-headers' packages that are suitable > for use by uClibc. > > > make[1]: *** [headers] Error 1 > ******************************************************** > > Thanks, > Mark > Redfone Communications > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
