From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Sat 10 Apr 2004 - 03:40:25 BST
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:45:43PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I was just informed today I will getting a used QUAD-ZENON with 3 Gig of
> RAM, and a fairly large RAID drive. This is to move a bunch of our
> in-house applications off some less than optimal hardware. I appears I'll
> have some time to 'do it right' as the other hardware is still working
> just fine.
> So to 'do it right' I'm planning on using FedoraHowTo (I'm sorry but
> I've used Redhat since 3.0.3 -- after an initial Slackware install that
> was fun but harder to maintain -- and though there have been some hick-ups
> along the way my attempts at other distros has been less than
> encouraging.) I'm starting to feel comfortable compiling the vserver
> kernel myself. My questions deal with the hardware. The RAID isn't a
> problem but I'm wondering about the 4 CPUs and RAM. Is there anything I
> should keep in mind as I'm configuring for this?
- SMP
- HighMem
for finding bugs:
- DebugInfo
- Preemtion
hmm, would be great if you could give the 2.6
branch a spin on a Quad-XEON ...
I am willing to optimize the kernel config,
for (2.4 and 2.6) in exchange for some testing
on that machine ...
> One other question -- which I'll probably answer myself this week-end --
> is what is a minimal Fedora installation for the main server? There has
> been lots of discussions (many caused my me) on the list about minmal
> vserver configurations but not a lot about the main server that I can
> remember seeing. If anyone has suggestions for their minimal main server
> I'm open to them.
>
> Otherwise have a great week-end.
Happy Easter!
best,
Herbert
> Rod
> --
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