On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahlers@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 11-15-2008 3:32 PM John R Pierce spake the following:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
No, the motherboard doesn't support ECC RAM. The motherboard is a Intel DG35EC - http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DG35EC/DG35EC-overview.ht...
midrange business desktop board. I use a DG33TL as my desktop, same thing.
It just doesn't pay to run critical systems on desktop hardware. Companies think they are saving money, until the downtime eats away any initial savings.
Sure, but it also doesn't pay to purchase a 10Ton truck to move a 1Ton load :) Bottom line is, you purchase the hardware for the needs that you have. Not every situation warrents a quad XEON on a blade system. The problem is, I have another server, with a slower CPU, half the RAM & a gigabyte motherboard, yet it can handle the same load.
This server runs 4 XEN VPS's, which I moved to the slower machine, and the slower machines handles the load very well. So, where does the problem lie? With the "cheap desktop hardware" ? I don't think so. Rather, I believe there's a hardware problem - i.e. CPU / RAM / motherboard / PSU?
I have reinstalled the OS (CentOS 5.2), and swapped out the HDD's as well - so that's not causing the problem.
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Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers
This comes down't to the old question of "what is a server"?
Is a server, a) the most powerful, reliable, expensive computer equipment on the planet? b) a machine that serves something to other machines, i.e. a web / database / email / backup / print / etc server?
And does it mean that if the motherboard is not a Titan / SuperMicro board, it's not a server? Come on, that is BS! My 15 year old Pentium I PRO (Socket 8 CPU), still serves very well as a firewall, and will boudle back as a file server at any given moment. In fact, I think it's far more stable than many Dell servers I have worked on. Just cause a company like Dell or SuperMicro builds expensive components and offer a 4 hour support structure does not make them superior to other computer components.