Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:30:36 -0500 | From | Derek Glidden <> | Subject | monster machine runs linux! |
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I have just gotten access (through the place I work, which will have to remain 'nonymous) to a fully-loaded Compaq 8500 with 8 Xeon 550Mhz processors (yep, eight of em) with 1MB of cache each and 4GB of RAM along with the usual Big Compaq Server goodies like the latest Compaq SMART RAID controller and some flavor of dual-100Mbps Ethernet/Gigabit fibre network adapter type thing.
The exciting thing (for me anyway) is that it is currently running RedHat 6.1, although with caveats: we haven't gotten it to use more than the first 2GB of RAM yet and the NIC is pretty finicky at 100Mbps and we haven't gotten the fibre channel working yet either. It does, however use all 8 processors without a problem, which lets it compile the kernel in like 35 seconds. I'm going to try to get the latest 2.3 kernel running on it tomorrow.
If there are kernel development things that will really take advantage of a monster machine like this for testing, please don't hesitate to let me know. Of course, I can't give anyone access to the machine directly, but I am more than willing to run experiemental stuff on it. (Within limits, of course.) It's also in a lab environment so we have many client machines on a switched network we can use to pound on it for load testing situations.
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