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On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:58 AM, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance |
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> 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon |
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> windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise |
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> some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it'd make this purchase |
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> more straightforward, and It'd be a great opportunity to support |
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> Gentoo. |
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> Any 'off the shelf' system recommendations, or should I just purchase |
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> pieces? (Reasonable vendors that build systems and perform Gentoo |
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> installation here in the US?) |
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> What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? |
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> Dual-core? |
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> Complimentary ram specs? |
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we're building our own with tyan motherboards, dual-core opterons and |
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4 gigs of ram (for the web servers, single core and 2 gigs). They |
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have dual gig ethernet ports (one nvidia, one broadcom, drivers in |
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the kernel). Haven't found any 400gig sata drives, at least not for |
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a reasonable price, we're using i think some 250s with 3ware raid |
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cards (the tyan motherboards only have fakeraid). Man these things |
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SCREAM.... One word of caution...the amd64 boot image that's latest |
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won't complete a boot, and the older 2005.0 has broken 3ware |
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drivers. had to install 65-bit ubuntu on a small partition and boot |
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to that to install gentoo. and that ubuntu is NOT smp enabled, so |
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the build went slow until I could reboot into gentoo. |
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we're building "blade" servers...not true blad servers, as each has |
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it's own nics and power, but you can get 10 in a 7-u rack (I think |
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it's 7 u) |
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> Mobo recommendations (lm_sensors and acpi support) in a 19 inch rack? |
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> N+1 redundant power supply recommendations? |
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> 10/100/1000 Ethernet support? |
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> What's the friendliest high end video card for displaying video |
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> (fast motion) that has open source drivers? Multiple displays? |
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> Which Sata-2 drives give good performance and size (400 G or more)? |
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> What's the best Raid level to run for storing, searching and |
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> manipulating |
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> tons of video, and should I get a Gentoo friendly controller or use |
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> software raid? |
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> Finally which file system would one recommed for this video server |
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> with the best, stable performance. |
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> ideas? |
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> James |
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