David Thompson wrote: > Jay Lee wrote: > >> Why i686? Sure the i386 version of CentOS 4 can access >4gb ram but >> it's quite ugly how it has to do it and there are still some limits. >> I'd strongly recommend using the x86_64 release if you can pull it off. >> > > It's an older Xeon that doesn't have the EMT64 extensions. > > Ah, I was getting the old box and the new one confused. So you're planning to move to x86_64 then... >> Well, if all you're doing is rsync or similar than CPU really isn't >> going to be a bottleneck in the near term, bandwidth and I/O are the >> bigger bottlenecks. What speed will the network be running at? >> > > The traffic is rsync (out; we have another box that grabs content for us), > http, and ftp. It's all GigE locally, and BIG pipes to the internet. Before > linux distros exploded in size and number, we pushed several hundred gigabit > for several days when someone did a release. > > Dave > > > I'd go dual Opteron, I'd be very careful about the SATA controller I used (make sure it is well supported and many people are using it with extremely large sata drives) and I'd get as much RAM as I could afford. Jay -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060410/496cb5b2/attachment-0005.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: jlee.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 193 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060410/496cb5b2/attachment-0005.vcf>