hans- you might also want to check out the forums at www.2cpu.com. a community of smp enthusiasts.
John Cuson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle >>> Hans Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/9/2004 9:15:45 AM >>> Hi! Unfortunately, I´m a bit lost on what hardware to use to build two servers. Both servers should run Debian, and I´m trying to find out about compatibility issues before buying any hardware. One of the servers will be used as a fileserver running SAMBA as a PDC. A single CPU system might be sufficient to serve about 40 users, but my impression is that a dual system would be better suited to our demands on the long run. The second one will act as a kind of application server by running a web-based ERP solution. It mainly needs to operate a postgreSQL database. The vendor of the software recommends a dual CPU system. Thus, both servers, at least one of them, will be dual CPU systems, but I´m lacking experience with multi processor maschines. Both should have SATA RAID controllers from 3ware, thus mainboards providing 64bit PCI slots make sense. Tyan makes some interesting boards, but I don´t know if they eventually have problems with Debian. How´s your experience with them? --- I´ve been looking for a hardware compatibility list, but didn´t find any decent information yet. Which kind of processors can you recommend, AMD (Opteron?) or some Intel? Any hints and suggestions are welcome. GH -- for i in "*.txt"; do mail -s $i hwilmer < $i; done su: $i: ambiguous redirect -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
