On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:37, Pierre Patino wrote:
Hello We've been given the green light to explore a replacement to our current architecture. One of the ideas kicked around was a quad or dual processor Linux system. I know nothing about Linux systems with more than one processor. Anybody on this list with a happy story? A happy motherboard/CPU? I can't reveal too much other than to say that one of the user processes can currently switch to near realtime priority and there's about 20 other processes running with varying degrees of load. Dual independent X-servers would be great each with its own VGA but that's another hurdle. I guess the main question is: who's running the most simultaneous CPUs out there with stock kernels and stock motherboards? TIA & Cheers
Running several Dual Opteron 250's with either 8GB of PC3200 or 16GB of PC2700. Running SuSe 9.1 and 9.2. Considerable speed increase with the PC3200 memory due to how the Opteron's access memory. There are several people on the list running Quad Opteron servers with the Tyan 4882. And the sales guy here http://www.hpcsystems.com/products/svr_a5880hs_future.html told me they prefer SuSe as the OS for these lovely 8-way Opteron's. <drool> By the way i'll have 2 quad opteron's in a few weeks so i'll post more on how the implementation went. Brad Dameron Systems Administrator SeaTab Software www.seatab.com