Was [Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 08 Jun Luke Hopkins wrote:
> Have been following this thread with interest. We run web services which
> are very db & disk intensive.

If it's disk intensive, make sure you get a good disk subsystem, and
configure it well.

> We had planned on ordering some Dell 1750's (XEON with HT), but the
> concensus seems to be that's not the best option?

For dual-processor, opterons seem to be better.  For uniprocessor,
there's not much in it, aiui.

> Would opterons be better for this purpose? Would we then need to run a
> 64 bit OS? Reccomendations?

You don't have to.  

I'm running standard 32-bit x86 Debian (with a 64-bit kernel) on them
right now.  There's going to be a pure64 debian amd port out quite soon
though, and multiarch later (so both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries can
cohabit).  I'm going to need multiarch for a lot of stuff (because we
use Oracle), but I'm going to run at least one machine on pure64.

Cheers,

Doug.

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