Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:52:01 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: aragon@phat.za.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, tj@tjvarghese.com Subject: Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ? Message-ID: <4A34F271.1000000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1MFoTK-0006tT-Aa@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1MFoTK-0006tT-Aa@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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Pete French wrote: >> I've tried the Atom330 (D945GCLF2). It works fine with amd64...however >> it's rather wasted for 64bit considering it maxes out at 2gb. But I >> suppose if you wanted to standardize on amd64 installs, this is good. >> > > Size of memory doesnt bother me really - I made the move to amd64 because > of the extra performance due to the extra registers (about 8% on my > application, I realise that not everyone gets a speedup). Given the > fact I am also moving to ZFS, and that works a lot better on amd64, then > I am not keen to go back ;-) > > >> Gigabit - ok, re0. You'll need 7.2 at least. >> USB - ok >> SATA - 2 ports tested only with gmirror, ok. >> > > Those three are very good to know work - the box will be headless, so I > just need ether and booting to work fine. Am always wary of re0 ethernets > as have been bitten in the past. > > Thanks for all the advice from eeryone in this thread - I have narrowed > the choice down to either the Tranquil PC unit, or the Shuttle X27D, > which is also Atom 330 based. Given the price I may simply buy one of each > and evaluate which is better. Will report back if so. > > I own the X27D, in fact I am typing this from it. It works reasonably well with FreeBSD (I am using 7.2/i386). The ethernet card (100Mbit), USB , SATA, audio, Xorg all work fine. You will only need this in sysctl.conf: hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate=0 otherwise you will be flooded with messages about weird temperatures. There is a single 40mm fan in the chipset, and in my system it failed about after a week of continuous operation. As it wasn't noisy it took a couple of hours until I realized it. You may wish to replace it with a better quality fan. This will probably work ok with AMD64 too, though with 2G of RAM I had no real reason to try.
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