Opteron Experiences

[Eric Sisler]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 04:29, Gavin Young wrote:

> We are looking at standardising our web and file servers onto
> Opteron based Servers and are currently deciding what
> motherboards etc we will use. All of these servers will
> eventually be running RHEL. Anyone had any experiences
> running RHEL on an AMD Opteron based server?
> 
> Would love to hear of any tips/tricks and "gotchas" before
> we go ahead and purchase hardware.

I don't have any direct experience here, but there's a good article in a
recent issue of SysAdmin Magazine (November, I think) that talks about
the differences between the AMD "reference" implementation of the
Opteron 800 and what vendors are likely to do to make their
impementation cheaper.  It also covers bottlenecks inherent in Intel
servers and the differences between Intel's improvements vs AMD's.  I
should still have the issue around somewhere if you can't find it.

-Eric


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