[LUNI] Server with 8GB system RAM :: any issues to be aware of

[Douglas J. Trainor]

no issues.

i went with CentOS for my first 20 boxes with >=8 GB (mostly 8 GB and  
16 GB boxes), about half Intel (Xeon) and half HP (Opteron).

for the Intel's, i went with Intel's S3200SH and not S3000AH.  at  
first, i was thinking of acquiring boxes for customers, and actually  
signed up for one of Intel's channels, but once there i couldn't find  
a distributor willing to sell me stuff for less than I could get it  
outside the "authorized" channel.

	douglas

On Aug 9, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Arun Khan wrote:

> On Saturday 09 Aug 2008, Mike Scott wrote:
> ... snip ...
>> I would assume you are going with a Xeon (or
>> other 64-bit CPU) and at that point, it would make sense to use a
>> 64-bit OS to access all of the memory in the server.
>
> Yes, plan to use 64 bit CentOS or Ubuntu; not decided yet.
>
>> What is this server going to be used for?  If it is just file and
>> print serves, 8G might be overkill as it won't even break a sweat.
>> If you have some high-end databases in mind, or as an application
>> server, then a lot of memory helps.  Maybe if you provided more info
>> as to the intended use, it might help.
>
> Quite a few things.  Support thin clients with file/print services,
> application servers running in virtual machines.  I realize we could  
> do
> some optimization but the client himself suggested to go with full
> memory config.
>
> -- Arun Khan
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