[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I'm looking at possibly deploying a Dell PowerEdge 4300 (dual PIII-500) as
> essentially a really big NFS file server. It'll be a good drive away from
> me, so I'm wondering if anyone is already using one of these with Linux,
> and if SMP is totally stable (or at least as stable as UP) under heavy
> load for disk and network i/o. If there are still SMP stability issues,
> it may make more sense to go single PIII-600.
I've set up a PowerEdge 2300 with dual P2- 350. It is incredibly
stable. Has been running for more than 2 months now...I've had it
running a Netbench 6 test for a day with 20 100 Mbit clients and it was
rock stable (and it had almost linear scaling..)... Actually I haven't
had any problems whatsoever with this box.
Here's the setup:
Dual P2- 350
256 MB RAM
Intel Pro 100 NIC
Adaptec AIC 7890, Adaptec 7860, Adaptec 2940 U2W scsi-controllers
6 Western Digital Enterprise 18300 Ultra2 drives and 1 IBM Ultrastar 18
LZX drive
Sony SDT 900 , DAT drive
NEC SCSCI CD-ROM drive
It's running two 3 disk SW raid 5 arrays, Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.6
with raid patches... It backs up 110000 files every night. Serves app.
32 100 Mbit NT clients and 10 Win 95 clients.
I've had it running Redhat 6.0 in the beginning, but it was way to
unstable...If you're planning to run Redhat I'll suggest you stick with
5.2...
best regards
Christian
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