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From: Geisel Sierote <geisel@×××××××.br>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:01:42
Message-Id: 42C924AB.8080701@4up.com.br
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server by Chris S
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8 Hi Chris!
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  • Hardware SCSI RAID 1
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  • no LVM2
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  • no SATA
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  • The motherboard:
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    18                product: SE7501BR2
    19                vendor: Intel
    20                version: A95686-506
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    Geisel Sierote wrote:
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    Sorry.
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    34 This is better:
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    36 I'm installing gentoo - kernel 2.6.x in a server with the specifications
    37 above. This will be an apache + php 5.0 + mysql 4.1 server. The server
    38 will be instaled on an internal network.
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    no problems there so long as php5 and mysql are stable enough for you
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    2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz
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    don't know how much data you're actually storing, but opterons perform
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    2GB RAM
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    get as much ram as you can. if you're making lots of mysql transactions
    64 store as much as you can in ram rather than from hdd.
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    2 HD SCSI 36GB RAID 1
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    software or hardware raid? LVM2?
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    1 HD IDE 80 GB
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    need to be hot swappable? SATA? what about external USB? can you afford
    83 downtime? is this your only backup?
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    85 what mainboard are you using? PSU?
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    91 ________________________________
    92 *Geisel Sebrão Sierote*
    93 _geisel@×××××××.br_ <mailto://geisel@×××××××.br>
    94 *4up Soluções Corporativas*
    95 _www.4up.com.br_ <http://www.4up.com.br>
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    97 Anthony Gorecki wrote:
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    (apologies if this is delivered twice)
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    107 It's unlikely that someone would take the time to analyze your new computer
    108 system and make blind suggestions. You'd have better luck asking a specific
    109 question, preferably after doing some research of your own. See
    110 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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    113 Secondly, extracting some header information from your message:
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    116 X-Filtering-Reason: The message contained data that was of an illegal content
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    118 X-Karma: -2
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    121 and after briefly scanning your message (in unrendered markup form), here are
    122 a few suggestions:
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    124 - Send your mail in plain text format. Many of the Gentoo developers and users
    125 on this mailing list can read HTML text without having it rendered, but
    126 they're more likely to simply send your message on an instantaneous trip to
    127 the trash; many mail filters will do this automatically (mine included).
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    129 - Don't waste message space by sending virtual business cards (the "illegal
    130 content type" mentioned in the second filtering header). If you need to
    131 provide information about yourself, add a web address to your signature; save
    132 us the trouble of looking at data that's of no interest. If someone wants
    133 more information, they'll search the web or visit the website that you've
    134 listed in your signature.
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    136 - Be concise. Basic information about the computer is useful. A raw dump of
    137 data, spanning your entire device subsystem, is not. This is also, from a
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