Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:52:24 +0100 (CET) From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would this system work correctly with FreeBSD 5.3 ? Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0501230246080.13561@tea.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050122141741.9690.qmail@web26804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050122141741.9690.qmail@web26804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Claus Guttesen wrote: >> I'm buying a Quad AMD Opteron 64 bits, with 4GB >> memory. I'd like to know >> if FreeBSD 5.3 will support a quad-cpu system (with >> HTT, 8) correctly, >> without performance losses and consistent operation, >> no crashes etc. Is >> the 4GB memory still a problem in amd64 ? > > I have a tyan quad-opteron @ 2 Ghz with 4 GB RAM. > Works fine, using it as a postgresql-server. Running > 5.3-stable. Very nice hardware. A short hardware blurp fyi: - HTT: Amd is indeed working on dual core cpu's, samples are rumoured to be out there. But there are rumours of heat issues and/or socket changes. I guess we'll see later this year. - Quad motherboards: It's a shame that tyan connects all the pci interfaces on their quad motherboard to one cpu. The hp/compaq quad proliant has seperate buses to two cpu's for extra bandwith. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm Allthough your gameserver should mostly be cpu/memory limited. You shouldn't need that much network/disk bandwith. -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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