From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Debreczeni Peter Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] lartc on dual CPU Opteron 64 bit machine? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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, > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/