Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running dual Opteron 246s with 1G of memory on a Tyan Thunder K8W S2885ANRF. I want to double my memory when I get the chance. I am running 6.0-Current however. So far so good. Things have been solid, finally. Had some growing pains at first but things have settled the past few days. It has been a combination of my playing, and dealing with the AMD64 platform versus i386, and I am running in 64 bit mode, not 32 bit. Good points. Real fast, no delays on anything. Compile times for ports or even kernel builds is very quick, in fact impressive. Bad points. Compatibility. Many ports, such as openoffice and java are currently not working on this platform, and I am sure there are others. Currently trying out Koffice for the first time in a very long while and it runs great. Note, Abiword having intermittent problems running on this platform, at least for me. I am using KDE as my desktop. Tried pulling out my Linux version of Railroad Tycoon 2 from Loki software just a short time ago. So far not much luck, but to be fair I have not had much time to troubleshoot. Time is always a problem for me. But all I can think of is an i386 game designed for Linux and trying to run it on an amd64 FreeBSD 6.0 system. Sounds like a hurdle. Have fun, Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? FreeBSD 5.3/i386 and 5.3/amd64 both work just fine on my Tyan S2885 (Thunder K8W) with dual Opteron 244's and 2GB RAM. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC98, Alpha, and UltraSPARC architectures - PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
On Jan 12 at 12:12, sp0ng3b0b launched this into the bitstream: I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Err, ahem I'd like to get one of those too! With 16GB of ECC DDR400 RAM and 10 15K RPM SCSI Ultra's in a RAID0/1 array naturally. Yeah, damn straight! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 12 at 12:12, sp0ng3b0b launched this into the bitstream: I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Err, ahem I'd like to get one of those too! With 16GB of ECC DDR400 RAM and 10 15K RPM SCSI Ultra's in a RAID0/1 array naturally. If you were getting 2 Opterons, why stop ad 16 GB of RAM? Might as well get 32... just to be safe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
On 01/12/05 15:12:42, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try sending this to the freebsd-amd64@ list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
On 01/12/05 15:12:42, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I forgot, amdzone.com runs FreeBSD on amd64 systems. Try posting in the forum, there are several unix people that use smp machines in their rendering farms. Chris Tom runs the site and you could ask him how it is doing, but last time I read a post from him on it he loved it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
