[CentOS] Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo

Sat May 13 06:18:22 UTC 2006

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

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Erick Perez 
Sent: Sat, 5/13/2006 12:21am
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Subject: [CentOS] 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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Erick Perez
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Panama, Republic of Panama
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