[TriLUG] New RH

[Ed Hill]

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:07, Jay Barrett wrote:

> Also I'm looking at upgrading my DB2/Linux
> servers that currently run on Intel Architecture
> (IBM xSeries 330s) and now considering AMD's 
> Opteron processors and was curious if anybody else
> has tried the Opterons? 


Hi Jay,

Between other tasks, I installed RHEL AS v3 on a dual Opteron system
today.  My observations:

 good:
  - As others mentioned, RHEL v3 is supposed to be built mostly 
      from the RH 9 sources and it certainly looks/feels that way.

  - I haven't had a lot of time to poke around but stuff seems 
      to work as it should.

 not so good:
  - Can't get the two on-board "Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704 
      tpoGigabit Ethernet" network chips to work (added an 
      entry to bugzilla) but could get a cheap-o Realtek 
      RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ NIC to work just fine.

  - The graphical install crashed repeatedly when starting X,
      so I switched to a text install and it worked.  I had 
      limited time so I didn't fuss with it.  Following the 
      install, X worked without any problems.

Ed

ps - Notes:

[root at XXX root]# /sbin/hdparm -t -T /dev/hda

 Timing buffer-cache reads:   1572 MB in  2.00 seconds = 786.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  112 MB in  3.03 seconds =  36.96 MB/sec


[root at XXX root]# lspci
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev
03)
00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
(rev 12)
00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
(rev 12)
00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev
0b)
01:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev
0b)
01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
03:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

[root at adams root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 5
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 240
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 1395.667
cache size      : 1024 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm
3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 2785.28
TLB size        : 1088 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 5
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 240
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 1395.667
cache size      : 1024 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm
3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 2785.28
TLB size        : 1088 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp


-- 
Edward H. Hill III, PhD
office:  MIT Dept. of EAPS;  Room 54-1424;  77 Massachusetts Ave.
            Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
email:   eh3 at mit.edu,  ed at eh3.com
URL:     http://web.mit.edu/eh3/
phone:   617-253-0098
fax:     617-253-4464
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