[Cialug] One of my new servers

David Champion dave at dchamp.net
Wed Jul 15 15:48:13 CDT 2009


You could also run Mandriva, it has good support for multiple cores. I 
haven't run it on anything with more than 4 cores personally...

Here's the info on kernel package options:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Howto/Mandriva_Kernels

(rant)
...and a lot of stuff like MySQL and Apache are optimized better (IMHO) 
than RH / CentOS, and it actually contains a useful set of packages, 
like if you want to do something *insane*, like have your PHP 
application talk to a MS-SQL or Oracle database without having to do a 
custom compile of PHP and Apache, or go track down someone's 
questionable collection of RPM's.
(end rant)

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Yeah, stick to centos and don't try Debian or ubuntu unless you want 
> to rebuild the kernels for more CPUs.
>  
> I asked where all my CPUs were about a year ago on an 4 CPU Quad core.
>  
> -Nate
>
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>     *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org
>     [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] *On Behalf Of *Tom Pohl
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:37 PM
>     *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>     *Subject:* [Cialug] One of my new servers
>
>     I'm starting to build up one of my new servers (a Quad 6-core box
>     with 64GB of ram).  Has anyone ever worked on a linux box this big
>     that has any advice on gotchas that might get me due to the
>     massive number of CPU's and RAM.  I'm running 64 bit centos 5.3
>     and it seems to be working fantastic ... almost too easy :)
>
>
>
>                CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       CPU4      
>     CPU5       CPU6       CPU7       CPU8       CPU9       CPU10    
>      CPU11      CPU12      CPU13      CPU14      CPU15      CPU16  
>        CPU17      CPU18      CPU19      CPU20      CPU21      CPU22  
>        CPU23      
>       0:    2209320          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0    IO-APIC-edge  timer
>       1:          3          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
>       8:          1          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
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>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
>      12:          4          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
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>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
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>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0    IO-APIC-edge  ata_piix
>     170:         54          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0   IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd:usb1
>     177:       6702          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0        427          0         53      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0   IO-APIC-level  megasas
>     178:         69          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          3          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4,
>     uhci_hcd:usb5
>     202:       2670          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0      
>        0          0          0          0          0          0       
>       0          0          0          0          0          0        
>      0         PCI-MSI  eth0
>     NMI:       1802        123        120        120        123      
>      126        120        120        115        119        118      
>      115        115        118        116        113        114       
>     113        114        113        110        112        110        113 
>     LOC:    2206644    2206498    2206579    2206476    2206521  
>      2206358    2206278    2206181    2206399    2206069    2205980  
>      2205890    2205924    2205769    2205691    2205597    2205680  
>      2205482    2205389    2205298    2205463    2205181    2205100  
>      2205004 
>     ERR:          0
>     MIS:          0
>
>
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