Re: Server recommendations

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:49, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> Actually,
> I don't need something so big as that, and the people who are going
> to be using this don't have the kind of IT dept that can maintain it. It
> needs to be a standard PC based architecture, just server grade.
>
> Opteron - PC compatible, by Intel?

http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/2003/upgrade07_03_08.asp
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_739_9003,00.html
http://www.laclinux.com/en/opt

The Opteron can act like a 32 bit x86 system (and run 32 bit
binaries *directly* in the h/w w/o slowdown for translation), or
it can run in 64 bit mode and go even faster because of extra
registers. There's also a mixed mode, where 32-bit x86 apps
can run on a system running a 64-bit AMD64 (generic name for
Opteron and Athlon64) kernel.

> Opteron - Costs vs Xeon or Pentium?

More expensive than P4, less than Xeon.

The Athlon64 is the consumer-grade version of the Opteron, and
is cheaper than the P4.

> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:37, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Christopher Browne wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Oops! gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net (Dennis Gearon) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> >>>
> >>>
> >[snip]
> >
> >
> >> From what I read on postgresql lists, it seems that opteron based machines are
> >>doing quite a good job as database server with right kind of disk. You could
> >>look at any such machine for database server..
> >>
> >>Check this..
> >>
> >>http://www.polywell.com/us/rackservers/poly1u2c.asp
> >>http://www.opteronics.com/opteron-servers.htm
> >>
> >>IMO they could be better machine for databases. Get a 64 bit linux kernel and
> >>run 32 bit postgresql on it. Should work like a charm..
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Why not run 64-bit PG on the 64-bit kernel? A bunch of distros
> >are releasing support for the AMD64 this month.

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