Lennart Sorensen (28.2.2005 15:53): >On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:42:00PM +0200, St?hlberg Mika wrote: >> We are in process of building new LAMP server for, i quess, quite typical >> usage, so nothing fancy there. >> >> I've been browsing through AMD64 mailing list as well as some other Debian >> lists and info pages to find out is AMD64 port way to go or is it maybe >> Sarge intel x86 architecture. Or perhaps some other distro altogether but i >> do really want to use Debian :-) so let's leave that aside. >> >> Questions i've seeked answer's, and partially got them, are: >> >> - HW compatibility, server specs: Dell PowerEdge 2800, single Xeon >> 3.2GHz/1MB 800FSB, 2x 1GB ram, PERC 4/di raid controller, PV100T 36/72GB DAT >> 7, 2x 73 GB SCSI Ultra320 hd, ups > >Well certainly some of the PERC cards work. I have never worked with >them personally. > >> - Pros and cons using AMD64 port (for production server) > >Pro: applications can have more than 2GB memory each (although given you >only have 2GB that isn't very interesting) >Con: xeon's apparently run a bit slower in EM64T mode than in native >32bit mode.
What about Sarge with 2.6. em64t-p4 kernel without HyperThreading compared to Sarge with 2.6. em64t-p4 smp kernel with HyperThreading? >Con: 64bit port isn't done and won't be officially released with sarge. > >> - Pros and cons using Sarge (on our present server we are using Woody, with >> few backported packages) > >Woody is a pain to install on modern hardware while sarge is rather >easy. >Sarge is _hopefully_ releasing soon, in which case you won't have as big >an upgrade to go to the new stable as you would going from woody to >sarge later. >Sarge doesn't yet have security updates, although security fixes tend to >make it in rather quickly anyhow. > >> Quite broad scope, i know but any comments, experiences or thoughts around >> these questions would be very well appreciated! > >Len Sorensen > > Mika Ståhlberg
