On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Mark Hahn wrote:
Interesting - the private mail was from me, and I've got two dual
Opterons in service. The one with significantly more PCI activity has
significantly more problems then the one with less PCI activity.
that's pretty odd, since the most intense IO
Mark Hahn wrote:
Interesting - the private mail was from me, and I've got two dual
Opterons in service. The one with significantly more PCI activity has
significantly more problems then the one with less PCI activity.
that's pretty odd, since the most intense IO devices I know of
are cluster
Mike Hardy wrote:
Its running x86_64 (Fedora Core 3) and the problem is rooted in the
chipset I believe. I don't think its Opterons per se, I think its just
the Athlon take two - which is to say that its a wonderful chip, but
some of the chipsets its saddled with are horrible, and careful
Gordon Henderson wrote:
Anyone using Tyan Thunder K8W motherboards???
I now know, there is a K8S (server?) version of that mobo, but at the time
it was all orderd, I wasn't aware of it - my thoughts are there there is
some sort of PCI/PCI-X problem with either the motherboard or the chipset,
and
Gordon Henderson wrote:
What I wanted was an 8-way RAID-1 for the boot partition (all of /, in
reality) and I've done this many times in the past on other 2-5 way
systems without issue. So I do the stuff I've done in the past, and theres
nothing really new to me in that respect. (I'm using LILO)
