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Derek Glidden wrote: > 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. Derek, We have a similar machine(Dell 6300) but currently with 4 cpus instead of 8. You need 2.3 in order to use all of your memory, when you config you can select 4GB. BTW, Our 6300 ran 2.3.35 fine but 2.3.36 - 2.3.39 had problems booting with all 4 cpus. I just grabbed 2.3.40 and I will try it soon. Larry Woodman > > > 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. > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > With Microsoft products, failure is not Derek Glidden > an option - it's a standard component. http://3dlinux.org/ > Choose your life. Choose your http://www.tbcpc.org/ > future. Choose Linux. http://www.illusionary.com/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ begin:vcard n:Woodman;Larry x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Mission Critical Linux;Kernel adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:woodman@missioncriticallinux.com title:Operating System Development Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Larry Woodman end:vcard | ||||||||||||
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