On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:45:43PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > I was just informed today I will getting a used QUAD-ZENON with 3 Gig of > RAM, and a fairly large RAID drive. This is to move a bunch of our > in-house applications off some less than optimal hardware. I appears I'll > have some time to 'do it right' as the other hardware is still working > just fine. > So to 'do it right' I'm planning on using FedoraHowTo (I'm sorry but > I've used Redhat since 3.0.3 -- after an initial Slackware install that > was fun but harder to maintain -- and though there have been some hick-ups > along the way my attempts at other distros has been less than > encouraging.) I'm starting to feel comfortable compiling the vserver > kernel myself. My questions deal with the hardware. The RAID isn't a > problem but I'm wondering about the 4 CPUs and RAM. Is there anything I > should keep in mind as I'm configuring for this?
- SMP - HighMem for finding bugs: - DebugInfo - Preemtion hmm, would be great if you could give the 2.6 branch a spin on a Quad-XEON ... I am willing to optimize the kernel config, for (2.4 and 2.6) in exchange for some testing on that machine ... > One other question -- which I'll probably answer myself this week-end -- > is what is a minimal Fedora installation for the main server? There has > been lots of discussions (many caused my me) on the list about minmal > vserver configurations but not a lot about the main server that I can > remember seeing. If anyone has suggestions for their minimal main server > I'm open to them. > > Otherwise have a great week-end. Happy Easter! best, Herbert > Rod > -- > "Open Source Software - You usually get more than you pay for..." > "Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL" > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver