Dennis Allison wrote:
I have been running a dual processor AMD Athlon server with a 760-based Tyan motherboard, 2GB memory, 100GB disk, Redhat Linux 7.3 without problem. I've watched for but have not seen any problems with the global interpreter loc. The workload seems to distribute over the processors without any problems.
I was told that cooling dual Athlon MP is difficult task and not solution usually turns into 5-8 collers. People say that Intel solutions has better thermal regime. But I am a bit suspicious 'bout Intel thermal protection built into processor effectively cutting processor speed in a half when overheeted. Thus with increased load on server there is potential possibility with Intel solution to get dog-slow machine just because processors are too hot...
Uptime is currently a something like 5 months. We support several thousand users using Zope.
Excellent stats! It's a pity that you do not have similar Intel server to compare throughput...
The original installation of RH7.3 was painful because interrupts were being directed to the wrong processor on intial load. Getting the intial load required the use of the magical, undocumented flag '-isys' at load-boot time.
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