LUGOD's web and mailing list server is an Athlon system built by little ol' me, and has been running reliably for the past 4 1/2 months now.
-- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:25 pm, Bill Broadley wrote: > > In my limited experience, Athlon systems build by small outfits or > > individuals are unstable. I would not use such machines for an important > > server. > > In my experience athlons are fine. > > Dual athlon (appro/small outfit): > sine:~> uptime > 9:16pm up 44 days, 11:42, 20 users, load average: 2.00, 2.31, 2.60 > cosine:~> uptime > 9:17pm up 44 days, 11:37, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > tangent:~> uptime > 9:15pm up 29 days, 10:10, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.04, 0.01 > > Dual athlon (lnxi/small outfit): > beowulf:~> uptime > 9:18pm up 26 days, 4:53, 6 users, load average: 2.28, 2.19, 2.11 > > Homebuilt desktop (single cpu): > [bill@bilbo bill]$ uptime > 9:18pm up 19 days, 22:04, 19 users, load average: 1.06, 1.06, 1.03 > > Some random cluster nodes (lnxi/dual): > [n1] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:19, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n2] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:20, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n3] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:19, 0 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 > [n4] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:19, 0 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 > [n5] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 11:53, 0 users, load average: 1.99, 1.98, 1.99 > [n6] > 9:19pm up 26 days, 2:12, 0 users, load average: 1.99, 1.98, 1.99 > [n8] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:19, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n9] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:19, 0 users, load average: 1.99, 1.98, 1.99 > [n11] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:18, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n13] > 9:19pm up 21 days, 7:19, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n15] > 9:19pm up 26 days, 2:16, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n16] > 9:19pm up 26 days, 2:15, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n17] > 9:19pm up 26 days, 2:15, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n18] > 9:19pm up 26 days, 2:14, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > [n19] > 9:19pm up 26 days, 2:15, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > > Of course there are bad motherboards out there, and of course people > often ignore a vendors recommendation on dimms and instead of getting > certified memory they get generic memory from a random vendor, or a > non-athlon certified power supply etc. > > Buy quality stuff the chances are better that it will work (amd or intel), > buy crap and your likely to have more problems. > > The last big vendor athlon I bought was a micron, worked fine, had a > ibm deskstar death, but otherwise worked. Unfortunately it was sold into > microsoft slavery so I can't run an uptime on it to see how long it's > been up 8-(. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
