[Gllug] AMD Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Sun Sep 7 08:42:38 UTC 2003


On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:53:45PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> At 23:25 06/09/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >(i feel lik i am bragging)
> >
> >I have just managed to get my two AMD opteron servers running the linux 
> >2.4.22
> >kernel in 64bit mode, aswell as 64bit glibc and mysql server, perl compiled
> >quite nicely for 64bit aswell
> 
> You're _bragging_ that you use mysql?

hehe, i find it does the job for me :-)
 
> That's like being proud of being an MCP :)

master control program?

> We've been selling opteron kit for about 4 months or so, it's really 
> impressive stuff.

the only little issue i had with these is that i needed to apply some bios
updates from Tyan as they wouldnt boot without keyboard or monitor :-)
(slightly useless for a colocated server)

Ian

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