Hello list, i?m looking forward to buy a new server. It should be low voltage so i?m thinking of a via eden processor like this one -> tinyurl.com/3ymlkl (sorry, there?s only a german page). Has someone expierence in using a via eden processsor? Thanks! Kamill
I have in the past used an early VIA Mini-ITX motherboard for the basis of a server. I believe (and I'm ready to be corrected) that you will need to use an i586 Linux build as the VIA processors aren?t completely compatible with the i686 instruction set. FWIW I changed from VIA to a Pentium M based mobo for the basis of a low power / heat server - mainly because I was having problems running multiple (8) drives from the VIA. At the time I had a dual slot riser card with two promise cards and it worked OK but I found it a little slow. Hope this helps Daveh -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Kamill S Sent: 15 March 2007 19:24 To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Via Eden Hello list, i?m looking forward to buy a new server. It should be low voltage so i?m thinking of a via eden processor like this one -> tinyurl.com/3ymlkl (sorry, there?s only a german page). Has someone expierence in using a via eden processsor? Thanks! Kamill _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Kamill S wrote:> Hello list, > > i?m looking forward to buy a new server. It should be low voltage so i?m > thinking of a via eden processor like this one -> > tinyurl.com/3ymlkl (sorry, there?s only a german page). >thats not what I'd call a 'server' by any stretch, its a mini-ITX motherboard, typically used in embedded systems. As I understand it, those 1.2GHz "Eden" CPUs perform comparably to a 450Mhz Pentium II, have very slow memory and IO bandwidth, don't support ECC memory (mandatory for any server in my book) and have very limited IO expansion. I suppose it really matters what this "server" is expected to do..
Kamill S wrote:> Hello list, > > i?m looking forward to buy a new server. It should be low voltage so i?m > thinking of a via eden processor like this one -> > tinyurl.com/3ymlkl (sorry, there?s only a german page). > > Has someone expierence in using a via eden processsor?A mate of mine swears by them. he runs Trustix 2.0 I think. OS/2 on one of them. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list
Kamill S wrote:> Hello list, > > i?m looking forward to buy a new server. It should be low voltage so i?m > thinking of a via eden processor like this one -> > tinyurl.com/3ymlkl (sorry, there?s only a german page). > > Has someone expierence in using a via eden processsor? >I'm using CentOS on a via system I got from LogicSupply. logicsupply.com Some other responders might not give Via systems much respect. I have experienced some lockups when doing rsync on the system Ihad and had disable disk DMA to keep it stable. However, for $400US, I run a quiet, cool home mail server and like it just fine. I'm running more Via systems as development network hardware, mostly because of the price. (I use different systems for production, my production environment is much higher traffic.) The memory bandwidth for Via systems is not stellar. I would not expect one of these Via boxes to do Gigabit routing, and I wouldn't expect better NAT performance than about 20Mbps when using some of these as a firewall or load balancer. If your needs are modest, Via+CentOS are an obvious win. This is the system I run at home, and the southbridge chipset did not like disk DMA with sustained network load. Newer chipsets should not have this problem. logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/49/products_id/372 Note that I've talked to one of the techs at LogicSupply who has mentioned that since CentOS runs a slightly older kernel, newer firewire or onboard audio chipsets might not be supported in CentOS kernels but better supported in Ubuntu or Fedora kernels. Jed