Unless you are just running some home server or something the general
idea of servers is to provide uptime. Servers usually start dying
after about 3 to 6 years* and, if you are trying to provide uptime,
searching around on ebay for someone that has a PATA hard drive, DDR
memory or some ancient pcix controller will severely dent this
objective.
I agree that its a shame that so much of this ends up in landfill. The
fact that chassis are not normally immediately reusable is a tragedy
in my eyes but running old, junk equipment is even more of a tragedy
when it breaks and people are relying on it.
*I work a lot in HPC where servers are hammered to death.
On 30 November 2013 14:33, Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 03:55 PM, Lists wrote:
>> On 09/19/2013 08:26 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>> It works for what it does. And I'm completely prepared to freeze it as far
>>> as software goes. I was just curious what may have happened after that
>>> particular version of the kernel, and whether there's something else I can
>>> do, or call it done, slap a red sticker on it that read, "DON'T EVER
>>> UPGRADE ANYMORE" and call it done.
>>>
>> For what it's worth, we have a single-core P3 running the latest
>> Centos6/32 without issue. I realize that from a processing power stand
>> point my SIP phone is probably faster, but like Ashley, it does a job
>> and very well at that. (network monitor)
>>
>> [root@edison ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor : 0
>> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family : 6
>> model : 7
>> model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
>> stepping : 3
>> cpu MHz : 498.456
>> cache size : 512 KB
>> fdiv_bug : no
>> hlt_bug : no
>> f00f_bug : no
>> coma_bug : no
>> fpu : yes
>> fpu_exception : yes
>> cpuid level : 2
>> wp : yes
>> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
>> pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
>> bogomips : 996.91
>> clflush size : 32
>> cache_alignment : 32
>> address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
>> power management:
>>
>> [root@edison ~]# cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686
>> (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red
>> Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 14:27:42 UTC 2013
>>
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> What is with people these days? Why if something works but it is old do people
> want to say OMG you need new hardware?
>
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