1. try redhat taroon or gingin , taroon beta2 looks stable
2. maybe with a compiler in a 64bit OS, but no experience yet, because i
waiting for a memory to my new dual opteron server :)
3. yes, but i think 1 opteron is enough for a real large traffic
bye
Dante
Astrid Jekat wrote:> Greetings, lartc experts! ;-)
>
> I am presently researching if it is possible to *efficiently* use a machine
> with 2 AMD Opteron CPUs for traffic shaping with lartc.
>
> 1) OS:
> ATM it looks as if I can only use SUSE Linux 8 Enterprise Server for
> AMD 64bit platforms.
> Debian, OpenBSD and NetBSD are working on ports, but are not done yet or
> still experimental.
> Suse at least is stable (but costs real money! *sigh* so much for open
source)
> and has a 64bit compiler.
>
> 2) Is lartc 64bit capable?
> I.e., can I compile lartc only to run as a 32 bit application or 64bit,
too?
> Any experience here?
>
> 3) Is lartc capable of making use of 2 CPUs?
> This is probably a question (kernel?) threading.
> I managed to find a reference in the ML archives that it might be
> possible to "assign" ine CPU to one ethernet interface, but I
don''t
> think this is quite what I need.
> I''d like to know if the process can actually use both CPUs.
>
> In a nutshell:
> I need to find out if lartc can make use of the nice resources on
> this dual Opteron 64bit machine.
> If yes, this would save the machine from the terrible fate of becoming a
> Windoze file server!
>
> So please advise ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
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