From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 16:18:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA3B16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:18:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.tznet.com (smtp.tznet.com [66.170.64.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C4D43D4C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:18:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottp@tznet.com) Received: from mail.tznet.com (mail.tznet.com [66.170.64.2]) by smtp.tznet.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2AGIF3G019765 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:18:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:18:15 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Pilz To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050310101330.V64852@mail.tznet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-T-Net-Virus-Scan: 66.170.64.6: Clean Subject: Hardware remedies X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:18:27 -0000 I'm looking for advise on hardware, what works good, what doesn't, what to stay away from, and what has been proven efficient. We currently run a load of Dell PowerEdges, which work great, but are limited in their i386 nature. I would like to get a few HP/Alpha machines, and start building up on these instead of sticking with i386. HP offers very little information on FreeBSD. They have a working demo on two older systems (only one is Alpha, and it's slow - very very slow, and old). HP cannot tell me what will or will not work. I'm curious as to what others are running (HP or non-HP) for Alpha. What has worked good in a server environment? Thanks! Scott (please respond directly to me, as I'm not on this list)