Re: Multprocessor core
matteo filippetto <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.www |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
2010/4/20 Alberta Hall <[email protected]>: > Hello - > > I obtained, unexpectedly, a Compaq 8-way (8 Xeon 550 CPU's) B computer. B To my > surprise, it booted to the POST and it was missing an OS. B It has 8 gig RAM > and an array of four 18 Gig SCSI's in a hot swappable enclosure. B I plan > to add an internal boot drive (probably a relatively modest IDE.... 6 or 8 or > 10 gig.... something like that) B from which to boot, and use the array of 18 > gigs as a striped RAID. > > I am looking for an OS that has the ability to take advantage of the 8 XEON > 550's. B I do not want to go with anything Microsoft. > > Is there anything I can use in the OpenBSD world? B An 8 CPU SMP version? > > If so, what is it? B If not, are you folks aware of (and would you mind giving > advice) any other versions of Linux available that I can employ in my efforts > to set up the 8 way Compaq I've been lucky enough to have recently obtained? > > Also, note that I prefer open source, if possible, and even free Solaris would > be OK. B I have knowledge of the FreeBSD & OpenBSD version and that is why I'm > starting my search for a solution with you folks. > > Thanks in advance > > Alberta Hall > [email protected] > > Hi, maybe a little OT for www but debian amd64 will probably do a good work. about openbsd and bigmem you should read http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=bigmem&q=b about 18 sata disks you should read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#intro Best regards -- Matteo Filippetto