While you're at it, take a look at Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org). I've been having very good luck with it on everything from a Duron 1GHz to Opterons. Very responsive. It compiled a kernel on an opteron in about 5 minutes.
Curtis Atle Veka wrote: >Excellent, I'll be waiting to see performance numbers, specifically for >FreeBSD vs. Linux. > >Save for a few odd machines, we're pretty much pure FreeBSD and the last >releases in the 4 branch are really impressive as far as speed and >stability. That being said, the Opteron would have to offer a pretty >decent performance gain for us to consider switching. At the moment, our >software layout is such that we have not had a need to take advantage of >more than 2G memory. > >Feel free to woo me with your performance results. ;) In the not so >distant future I will have to get an Opteron box so I can see for myself.. > > >Atle >- >Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator > >On Mon, 9 May 2005, Kevin Burton wrote: > > > >>Great! I created a wiki node for this issue. >> >>http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO >> >> > > >
