How hard is it to use Debian AMD64? I run about 15 Debian servers for various clients. These are all 32 bit machines, mainly dual Xeons or Pentium IVs; we use Debian on our Apple ibooks too. All of our machines run stable + a few things from testing + occasionally something from unstable.
We are getting ready to purchase a machine for a web application prototype. I won't go into the nitty gritty of what the machine is to be used for, but suffice it to say that we want good Postgresql 8.x read and write performance and enquiries on the postgres list brought us here. Basically, I'm keen not to make a lot of work for our team by supporting unusual hardware. However, we are keen to experience the benefits of using 64bit! Does Debian AMD64 have installers, eg netinstallers? Does AMD64 have stable, testing and unstable package trees? Thanks for any comments, Rory p.s. Our standard environment includes: Apache 1.3x/Apache 2.x PHP4 Python 2.3/2.4 including all standard modules Perl including all standard modules Postgresql 7.4/8 (I believe I can compile the latter from the debian source packages myself) Exim4 screen netfilter/iptables etc. One possible configuration we are looking for is as below: Motherboard : Dual AMD Opteron,[X2881G2NR],AMD8131, Up to 3x PCI-X,S-ATA Raid,2x Gigabit LAN Chipset : AMD-8131 Info : 5 x PCI (Total); 1x PCI-X for 1U and 3x PCI-X for 2U; Graphics Slot = None Ports : 2xUSB V2.0 [Rear],PS/2 Kb, Mouse,Serial,Parallel Maximum : RAM 16GB using 8 x 2GB On-board Graphics : Integrated ATI 8MB Rage XL Std HDD Controller : IDE UDMA 100 (Primary & Secondary On-board SCSI : None On-board RAID : S-ATA Raid (Raid 0, 1, 10, 4 drives) Silicon Image 3114 On-board LAN : 2 x Broadcom 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet On-board Audio : None CPU : 2 x AMD Opteron 242 1.6GHz (2-way) - 1MB Cache RAM : 2,048 MB Total using 4 x 512MB PC3200 DDR Registered ECC (Use Only In Pairs) Chassis : 2U C215S, 8x H-Swap SCSI Bays, Slim CD and FD bays, 660mm, 2x 64bit PCI, 510W (Black) Rail Kit : Telescopic Rail Kit included with case RAID Controller : LSI MegaRaid 320-1, 64 Bit PCI, Ultra320, 64mb, Single channel, Raid levels 0,1,3,5,10 SCSI HDD : 6 x 36GB 15,000 rpm Ultra320 Ethernet : 1 2 x Broadcom 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet on-board motherboard -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]