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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