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