My $0.02
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:12, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
> Whats' the best motherboard you ever ran CentOS on?
> Right now I run using Tyan S288@UG3NR-D Dual Core Opteron SCSI SATA GBe
> LAN boards.
I have half a dozen systems with very, very similar hardware. Under EXTREME
loads (LA > 70) it STILL NEVER DIES. I love these things!
> I have a vendor that consistently says they get complaints on Tyan
> boards, but out of the cluster, none of mine have ever died. The Dells
> die, and get replaced. The remaining Sun's, seem to never die even
> though I wish they would. Not that i'm a fan of Tyan, -but oddly enough
> this particular board works great.
Ditto. Just tried some quad-core Supermicro systems, and they've never been
able to hold their own with a sustained load above 8 or so. And these are
QUAD CORE systems...
> I noticed alot of the hardware advice Johnny gives (hardware &
> advice/fixes) just so happens to coincide with vendors saying the exact
> oppposite thing. They say go with ATI and broadcomm right when he's
> actually helping someone fix something related to one of those
> components. Sometimes on the same day.
Salesman will say whatever if it means a sale.
> If we as engineers are to have any say in our industry, it's going to
> happen when we all talk outside the box of BS theory and FUD or
> over-analysis or analysis-for-analysis'-sake.
>
> Right now Intel has things such that it's actually a little difficult to
> find a stock 2U production linux system unless you actually break it
> down part-by-part and vet the whole thing. Just curious about your
> opinions and advice -is there a spec you follow that you like?
Why 2U? I'm *all* 1U.
> Way back when, you'd either order a Supermicro-type system, or get a VA
> Linux type machine. What do you do now? If you happen to be trying to
> spec out a solid Linux server, I can say that the spec I arrived at
> handles over 100,000,000 page views a week -that's 1/3rd of CNET. It's
> all CentOS, the whole thing. A percentage of you might have travelled
> across them, especially if you happen to read news on the web.
>
> Commodity is the way to go. Get 40 servers for the price of one
> commercial vendor machine. CentOS is very real my friends -let's talk
> hardware! Maybe we can help the centos project out by doing so.
I'm setting up a cluster of (minimally) 6 systems over the next year.
> I have to say, i'm sticking with my own hardware choices, -so please
> don't view this as someone trying to get a hardware spec for free -the
> intention here is to solidify our own base as centos users, sysadmins.
Tyan is the way to go!
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