From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 03:16:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F5B16A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl390.iae.nl [212.61.63.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746D043D1D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:16:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from dual (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i1DBEleL015946; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:14:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <0b8201c3f222$a7d3eec0$471b3dd4@dual> From: "Willem Jan Withagen" To: References: Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:15:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System advice requested X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:16:57 -0000 Like you suggest: I've also got some taxes to burn But also: I'd like to play And to be honest: In my new house 8Gb isn't going to cover all. It needs to: stream audio CD's and DVD's capture secure cams function as a database server for the domotica system central store and backup for all other PC's 4*W2K 5*FBSD ....... I was thinking of adding at least 1T of diskspace and see if either vinum, ccd, GEOM or something that is to come would be able to do the job. I knew about the SATA stuff from current@, but I would expect that carefull choices can prevent some of the major pittfalls. I'll have a go at the archive. Since your .nl too, any price indications and/or shop-advices??? --WjW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adriaan de Groot" To: "Willem Jan Withagen" Cc: Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Re: System advice requested > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > If I were to get a dual opteron board/system what things would be > > to watch out for, or would be required. Hardware wise that is. > > > > In the beginning I would like to use is as: > > 1) FreeBSD/windows/linux desktop > > and lateron it would turn into my > > 2) Home NFS/Samba-server running FBSD > > For all of that, dual opteron sounds massively overdone. Unless you can > write off the system for tax purposes, or desperately want to play with > dually stuff, there's no performance benefit over, say, an athlon XP > 1600+. Performance in the sense of "snappy desktop use". > > Put another way - the reason for having a dual board is massive compute > power and/or massive memory. I don't see much point in having 8G of memory > in a home NFS server (unless you want to cache _everything_), and for > desktop use, again, a single is really all you need. Unless your house > needs heating, of course. > > There are several hardware-issues related threads in the archives at > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/ -- it looks like some > SATA stuff is to be avoided, depending on your FBSD install image the GigE > may give you some trouble and require a different NIC for fetching newer > sources, 4+2 DIMM configurations are crap. > > >