Thanks for the tip, is this the article you are talking about? http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm Very, very interesting reading. Just what I was looking for to convince management of Opteron's benefits. The paragraph about the OEM's cutting corners on some boards and what to look out for is exactly the info I was after. Thanks again, Gavin -----Original Message----- From: Eric Sisler [mailto:esisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 09:13 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Opteron Experiences On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 04:29, Gavin Young wrote: > We are looking at standardising our web and file servers onto > Opteron based Servers and are currently deciding what > motherboards etc we will use. All of these servers will > eventually be running RHEL. Anyone had any experiences > running RHEL on an AMD Opteron based server? > > Would love to hear of any tips/tricks and "gotchas" before > we go ahead and purchase hardware. I don't have any direct experience here, but there's a good article in a recent issue of SysAdmin Magazine (November, I think) that talks about the differences between the AMD "reference" implementation of the Opteron 800 and what vendors are likely to do to make their impementation cheaper. It also covers bottlenecks inherent in Intel servers and the differences between Intel's improvements vs AMD's. I should still have the issue around somewhere if you can't find it. -Eric -- Eric Sisler <esisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Library Applications Specialist Westminster Public Library Westminster, CO USA Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. Want to know what we use Linux for? Visit http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
