From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@swe.net>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Sun Enterprise 6500. 10xUltraSPARC/400MHz, 10Gb mem
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:13:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> (raw)
How does this sound as a Linux machine? Stability? Scalability?
How good is Linux/SPARC64 in taking advantage of this amount
of CPU's? I've heard that Linux scales up to 32 CPU's (old number?)
but I guess that's on x86, not SPARC64?
Would it (Linux) even run on such a machine? I've tried getting
it to work on a E3000, but is getting huge problems with the SCSI
interface (esp if I remember correctly)...
This was a friends machine, and I was only called in as help. Never
got it to work correctly with any of the standard Debian GNU/Linux
kernels we tried. Next step was to make a custom kernel, but friend
travels a lot so there's little time to work on this.
Now he's shopping for a E6500 (eBay). But I'm a little skeptical
on getting it to work (at all and/or good). Any pointers? Ideas?
next reply other threads:[~2006-03-22 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-22 18:13 Turbo Fredriksson [this message]
2006-03-22 18:31 ` Sun Enterprise 6500. 10xUltraSPARC/400MHz, 10Gb mem Jima
2006-03-22 19:21 ` Dennis Gilmore
2006-03-22 20:20 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-23 19:29 ` Lamar Owen
2006-03-23 20:11 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-23 20:30 ` Lamar Owen
2006-03-24 4:08 ` Dennis Jenkins
2006-03-24 19:08 ` Lamar Owen
2006-03-24 22:33 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-25 0:30 ` Lamar Owen
2006-03-25 0:36 ` David S. Miller
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