From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266147AbTLIUmX (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:42:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266150AbTLIUmX (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:42:23 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:16649 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266147AbTLIUmV (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:42:21 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6-test10 on an Opteron Date: 9 Dec 2003 20:31:02 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1071001862 23968 192.168.12.62 (9 Dec 2003 20:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Ananda Bhattacharya wrote: | I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with 2.6 | on a Dual Opteron system. I have a Broadcom 5702 ethernet | card, and the network starts up but it seems slugish. Lilke | yobind and and nfs don't start up properly. They fail on | startup and I have to run the init scripts by hand. I am | also running a crazy Redhat Enterprise Server Beta release. Also | I was wondering if anyone has an idea what a good distro | for x86-64 bit architectures is? Is there a status page for that? I see that Tyan is going to (probably) release a four-way board in the near future (post in comp.sys.intel links to pictures, etc) and I deserve a new toy for my birthday in the spring, so this is not idle curiousity. When I see the prices it may be, but the SMP CPUs are affordable. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.