Hi Christopher, thanks for sharing your experience! On Monday, 27. September 2004 16:46, Christopher Hicks wrote: ... > Sorry for missing the start of this thread. I'm running an Opteron 146 on > an Asus board with a gig of ECC/Reg SDRAM and I've been extremely pleased. > My current uptime is three days, but I've been up to 10 days and I've only > had the box for three weeks. It hasn't crashed once. I've been very > pleased with the "bang-for-the-buck" of this box. Opteron+SATA is truly a > step up in overall system bang-for-the-buck. Yeah, I figured that having the AMD 64bit platform with a true 64 bit OS I would save some money instead of buying expensive SMP hardware from Intel... And since Fedora is the only ready-to-use distribution from CD, rpm based that can be freely downloaded I was curious how it's doing :-) > If you're expecting to add disk space down the road and want to be able to > grow your filesystems into it then LVM is as easy software RAID to get > going and very cool. If you're happy with static filesystem sizes for the > forseeable future, then don't worry about it. OK, then this is certainly on my long term to learn list. > I haven't tried LVM under x86_64, only on x86, so there may be bug's there > I'm unaware of. Within the next few weeks this Opteron 146 box is going > to become our primary mail server. > > Our current mail server is doing SpamAssassin, multiple RBL's, multiple > virus engine checks on 30k messages a day and its an Athlon 1700 with > 512M! One of our motivations for upgrading this box is to get some more > CPU available for dealing with "email rush hour", but the Athlon has > handled the 30k without any noticable difficulty. (Some other things > running on that box smoke it, but not email.) So doing 15k messages on > any AMD64 should be pretty safe. :) > > (Oh yeah, all the boxes are on Fedora Core 2!) Say, how do you handle the short upgrade cycles of Fedora? Core 3 is nearing completion and it is only a matter of time until the Core 2 lifecycle reaches an end. Is upgrading to a newer Core release painless and can it be done without risking the availability of the services? regards, Tobias
