In my specific case. Asterisk will be the main app in that box, so
everything will be built against x86_64 libraries.
On 5/15/06, C.. Scott Heisler <Scott.Heisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Johnny,
>
> Thanks for expanding further on this. What you described was exactly what I
> was referencing. All of the stock applications work fine. I just ran into
> some problems with 3rd party stuff that didn't have specific binaries for
> the 64-bit OS.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Johnny Hughes
> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 6:26 AM
> To: CentOS ML
> Subject: Re: Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo
>
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:56 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> > Scott, The system will handle the load of 30 call center agents and go
> > up all they way to 200 agents talking simultaneously. It must also
> > record the phone conversations of every and all agents/calls. So
> > transcoding and/or I/O bottlenecks are an issue.
> > That's why might seem overkill.
> >
> > we will definitely recompile asterisk in that box. we will not run the
> > bianries. However when you say compatibilities, you mean development
> > tools? the compiler? sendmail? apache?
> >
>
> If you are going to compile items on an x86_64 box using the CentOS
> x86_64 arch, there are gotchas introduced by multiple libraries.
>
> What you want to make sure you have is a pure x86_64 build environment
> to build all x86_64 files.
>
> You may need these 2 files that are i[3,4,5,6]86 (and only these x86
> files ... any others can produce badly built binaries).
>
> glibc.i686
> glibc-devel.i386
>
> What this means is, you can't run i386 items (like Open Office) on your
> x86_64 machine that you want to use for building packages.
>
> As far as all the built in server services, everything on x86_64 from a
> server perspective works fine (sendmail, apache, gcc, rpm-build,
> etc.) ... it is the mixing of shared libraries that will cause you
> problems if you want to build.
>
>
> > On 5/13/06, C.. Scott Heisler <Scott.Heisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure how many users you plan on serving with that Asterisk
> > box... that does seem like a bit of overkill though. I've read where
> > a couple of hundred users are served quite well with a 1ghz CPU and a
> > gig of RAM (single CPU).
> > >
> > > CentOS has a 64bit edition for the AMD CPU. Dual-Core does not
> > require anything special from the OS, no more that Hyperthreading did.
> > The OS just sees 2 CPUs per DIE. So, the OS will see 4 CPUs. The
> > only issue you will need to deal with is the 64-bit compatibilities.
> > I've played with the 64-bit versions and you may run into some
> > compatibility issues for software not specifically compiled for 64-bit
> > and have to re-compile rather than use the binaries or straight RPMs.
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Erick Perez
> > > Sent: Sat, 5/13/2006 12:21am
> > > To: CentOS mailing list
> > > Subject: Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi folks, an Asterisk (www.asterisk.org) box will be built with the
> > > following specs and I wanted to know if CENTOS has a built
> > > process/config/parameter/special distro to target the AMD Opteron Dual
> > > Core plataform:
> > >
> > > 2 amd opteron 265 dual core 1.8 Ghz 2mb l2 cache
> > > 2x1024 ocz c2-6400 dual channel gold GX XTC
> > > 2 Seagate 16mb cache 300 GB barracuda 7200 drives
> > > another 2 Seagate 500 GB 16mb cache baracuda ata 7200 drives
> > > lite on dual layer lightscribe 16x dvd+rw/rw x48 drive
> > > 4 port Sata Raid controller
> > > raid - 10
> > > 2 gigabit E broadcom 10/100/100 GBE lan controller
> > > Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) motherboard or Tyan motherboards with
> > > ServerWorks BCM5785 Chipset (or similar from Tyan only)
> > >
> > > All your comments will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
>
>
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