Unless you are just running some home server or something the general idea of servers is to provide uptime. Servers usually start dying after about 3 to 6 years* and, if you are trying to provide uptime, searching around on ebay for someone that has a PATA hard drive, DDR memory or some ancient pcix controller will severely dent this objective. I agree that its a shame that so much of this ends up in landfill. The fact that chassis are not normally immediately reusable is a tragedy in my eyes but running old, junk equipment is even more of a tragedy when it breaks and people are relying on it. *I work a lot in HPC where servers are hammered to death. On 30 November 2013 14:33, Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com> wrote: > On 09/24/2013 03:55 PM, Lists wrote: >> On 09/19/2013 08:26 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >>> It works for what it does. And I'm completely prepared to freeze it as far >>> as software goes. I was just curious what may have happened after that >>> particular version of the kernel, and whether there's something else I can >>> do, or call it done, slap a red sticker on it that read, "DON'T EVER >>> UPGRADE ANYMORE" and call it done. >>> >> For what it's worth, we have a single-core P3 running the latest >> Centos6/32 without issue. I realize that from a processing power stand >> point my SIP phone is probably faster, but like Ashley, it does a job >> and very well at that. (network monitor) >> >> [root at edison ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : GenuineIntel >> cpu family : 6 >> model : 7 >> model name : Pentium III (Katmai) >> stepping : 3 >> cpu MHz : 498.456 >> cache size : 512 KB >> fdiv_bug : no >> hlt_bug : no >> f00f_bug : no >> coma_bug : no >> fpu : yes >> fpu_exception : yes >> cpuid level : 2 >> wp : yes >> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov >> pse36 mmx fxsr sse up >> bogomips : 996.91 >> clflush size : 32 >> cache_alignment : 32 >> address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual >> power management: >> >> [root at edison ~]# cat /proc/version >> Linux version 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 >> (mockbuild at c6b10.bsys.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red >> Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 14:27:42 UTC 2013 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > What is with people these days? Why if something works but it is old do people > want to say OMG you need new hardware? > > -- > Stephen Clark > *NetWolves* > Director of Technology > Phone: 813-579-3200 > Fax: 813-882-0209 > Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com > http://www.netwolves.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos