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 at 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! > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978