I was talking to a friend tonight and he mentioned that CentOS 32 bit may not support dual Woodcrest 5150 2.66GHZ chips.
I was wondering if there is anyone out there that is using CentOS 32 bit version and is running with 2x Woodcrest 5150 chips or even one of them. I would like to put this myth to rest (I hope) before I have CentOS installed on my server.
Thinking once again about going to the Woodcrest 5160. Is there a big proformance differnce betwen the 5150 and the 5160?
View 14 Replies View RelatedIm thinking about make littel upgrade. At this time I have Intel Xeon Dual CPU Dual Core Woodcrest 5160 3.0GHz w/4MB L2 cache and I wolud like to change them to: Dual Xeon E5405 Quad Core (Harpertown). The price and other server parameters are almoust the same. When
I change server I will be have better performance?
server is all decided on. Now the processors are my last choice before picking a colo.
But the processors are confusing. There are other posts on here talking about the Dempsey, Woodcrest and the Clovertown. The research I have done on this has told me to stay away from the Dempsey. So not I need to decide between the Woodcrest 5150 (2x 2.0G) and the Clovertown E5320 (4x 1.86G).
Can someone shed some light on this two and explain in plain English which one would be the better of the two? I have read where some people say the Woodcrest would be the better choice and others say the Clovertown would be the better choice. We know the Clovertown has 4 cores and the Woodcrest has 2 cores.
Could someone explain which would be the better choice and why that would be the better choice?
Just saying it had 4 cores does not always mean it is better from what I haver read.
I'm planning on getting a new dedicated server from SoftLayer. I'm interested in the Xeon 5100 or 5300 series. Which one is better:
Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5310 - 1.60GHz (Clovertown) - 2 x 8MB cache
or
Dual Processor Dual Core Xeon 5140 - 2.33GHz (Woodcrest) - 2 x 4MB cache
Both cost the same.
Also, I heard that Apache is capable of taking advantage of multi-core processors (such as the dual proc quad core Clovertown) but that cPanel does not compile Apache in a correct way for it to function properly (efficient) on such machines. Is this true? Can this be solved? Does this mean I have to compile Apache manually?
i think to buy a dedicated which processor is better,
for big vbulletin and medium php/mysql sites
1- Intel Xeon Dual CPU Dual Core Woodcrest 5160 3.0GHz w/4MB L2 Cache Per Core
2 - Quad Core Xeon X3353 Processor 2x6M Cache, 2.66GHz, 1333MHz
I understand that the woodcrest is a better processor. Just want people's opinions if it justifies the price.
Here are the configurations we are looking at:
Dual Xeon 3.2 SCSI
2GB of RAM
2 x 73GB SCSI Disk
Cpanel
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$222
or
Dual Intel Woodcrest 5130 Dual Core
4GB of RAM
2 x 146GB, 10K RPM SCSI
cpanel
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$385.00
We host approx 100 sites on a server. 60% are static sites and 40% are ecommerce or sites with a database. Just curious if the performance increase will justify the price on the woodcrest vs the xeon.
Also is $385 a good deal for this setup?
Its been asked many times, please help me decide a new server and we'll keep this topic limited between only 3 configs in question.
I've been using 2 dedicated servers
2.8Ghz dual xeon.
Now its time for a new one. Iam going with Softlayer this time and need your kind suggestion for which of these can handle a good amount of shared hosting traffic.
A).Dual Processor Single Core Xeon - 3.00GHz (Irwindale) - 2 x 2MB cache - HT
Second Processor
Single Core Xeon - 3.00GHz (Irwindale) - 2 x 2MB cache - HT second_processor
B). Processor Dual Core Xeon 5130 - 2.00GHz (Woodcrest) - 1 x 4MB cache
C).Single Processor Quad Core Xeon 3220 - 2.40GHz (Kentsfield) - 2 x 4MB cache
My choice is (A) the Irwindale one.
We are using the SC512L-260B chassis for our lower end machines, what is a good recommendation for say Dual Opteron or Dual Woodcrest servers?
Looking 1U that will handle 2 drives, but would also like a recommendation for going with 4 drives (would this require 2U?). Hot swap not necessary.
When it comes to CPUs I am pretty clueless, so excuse any silly comments here.
I am little confused by the performance benefits vs price of quad core and duale core processors. I am hoping some of you experts can clarify this for me.
For example, on newegg they have the following:
Intel Xeon 5160 Woodcrest 3.0GHz for $877
and the
Intel Xeon E5345 Clovertown 2.33GHz for $879
Now though the Clovertown has a lower processing speed, I get to run 4 processes simultaneously and have an aggregate total processing power of 9.32 ghz.
On the other hand, the Woodcrest proc allows me to run 2 processes simultaneously and I have an aggregate total processing power of 6 ghz.
Now I am probably reading this wrong, but why would you purchase the woodcrest when the price is essentially the same and benefits are much greater?
On a last note, do programs such as mysql and apache 1.3 take advantage of the multiprocessors?
wondering in general and specifically for woodcrest vs conroe and kentsfield vs clovertown
I can't find either
a) an explanation as to why the server cpu's are superior to the desktop equivilents
or
b) benchmarks comparing them.
even mainstream hardware sites like tomshardware has benchmarks for server hdd's, but not server cpu's for some reason.
apart from the ability to use dual cpu's in a single machine, what is the advantage? what warrants the price difference? are there benchmarks available anywhere to compare comparable models? (example, woodcrest xeon 5150 2.66ghz vs conroe c2d e6700 2.66ghz)
What is the difference between CentOs 5.0 and Centos 4.5? (Both contains Plesk)
Would CentOS 5 contain more updates and fixes? CentOS 4.5 be more stable?
Does it worth to upgrade cent os to latest version on server where is installed whm/cpanel?Could i request upgrade from cpanel support ?
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhich one do i have to choose?? and why?
my server is P4 3.6GHz HTT with 2GB RAM
I've made a how to, based on my personal knowledge about upgrading a CentOS 3, RedHat 9, or 8?, Fedora Core, and maybe others, to the new CentOS 4.5 OS. (or CentOS 4.x)
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Please post, comments, questions, etc. here.
I've myself upgraded many servers this way, (even, tonight, I upgraded another, so I finally decided to do this with all my notes)
linux and after several days testing different distributions and a bunch of different ways (e.g. freenx,vnc XFCE ...) I've decided to setup a vnc-server on CentOS-5-i386-minimal and use KDE as a desktop environment.
After reloading my vps with centos-5-i386-minimal, I logged in as root and executed:
Code:
yum update
yum -y groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum -y install vnc vnc-server firefox X11 xorg
I then added a user "abt" and set the password. Then I logged in as abt and execute : vncserver, it asked for the password and created the appropriate .vnc directory and files.
I then edited xstartup file and replaced "twm &" with "startkde &" and executed vncserver once again, this created desktop number 2 for me.
The problem is that after running TightVNC(on vista) and entering IPNUMBER:2, It successfully connects to vnc-server but what i get is a black screen with X cursor!
i have a colo server, lately im having problem, every 2-3 oclock in the morning my server crash, i asked the server management to have a look at it but no luck, they install rpm, reduce the http max, etc, etc ( i dont want to mention the name since my server management have helped me alot and its not fair for them if i speak a bad thing about them ) anyway,
I bought the server from siliconmechanics iServ R254
CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 Quad-Core 2.33GHz, 12MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, 45nmHi-k
RAM: 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR2-667 Registered ECC - Interleaved
NIC: Intel 82573V & 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controllers - Integrated
Hot-Swap Drive - 1: 150GB Western Digital Raptor (1.5Gb/s,10Krpm,16MB Cache,NCQ) SATA
Hot-Swap Drive - 2: 500GB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (3Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 32MB Cache, NCQ) SATA
Optical Drive: Low-Profile DVD-ROM Drive
Power Supply: 520W Power Supply with PFC - 87% Maximum Efficiency
Rail Kit: 2-Piece Ball-Bearing Rail Kit
OS: CentOS 5 - 64-bit - Preload, No Media
Warranty: Standard 3 Year - Return to Depot - Advanced Component Exchange
Configured Power: 255 W, 262 VA, 871 BTU/h, 2.4 Amps (110V), 1.3 Amps (208V)
Im using CENTOS 5.2 x86_64
i check on the message log, this is the error before crash
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
ide1: reset: success
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
ide1: reset: success
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
ide1: reset: success
Motherboard manual
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i read on centos forum its a problem with the drive - the 500 gigs( the server read my hd as ATA instead of ATA )
i tried to go to BIOS and change to AHCI but server doest recognize the drive
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Is there really no package in yum for APC (Alternative PHP Cache)? Everything I'm seeing suggests I build it from source.
Is this the way to go? I can, it just seems unlikely to me that there's no build of it.
is there any GUI ( pre installed ) in centOS 4 ..
if yes, how can we access it,
if no, how can we install GUI and access it...
Will be reloading server OS and wondering with which one of those should I go?
Now using 4.6
I have dedicated works on Centos 4. Now I have to reinstall OS. Administrators recommend me to put again Centos 4 and I would like to install Centos 5. Would like to hear opinion of professionals what it is better to put?
View 12 Replies View Relatedhow to find OS crash logs or apache crash logs. My server keeps dying every night and I need to know where and how to find out why it is doing this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just leased my first dedicated server from managemybox, which has come loaded with centos 4.5.
I need to install all the ffmpeg/transcoding junk - something I've done before...
...but now, I'm having huge issues. Yum and up2date don't seem to have *any* idea of where anything, from ffmpeg to flvtool2 is.
I'm crap at quite a bit (read most) of the command line stuff. Whadddoo I need to do? Why is yum telling me there are no matches for the damn stuff?
How can I get from A to B properly without the hassle?
I did have a VPS before, with memset.com - and all this stuff installed fine on Fedora 4 (it was a VMWare based VPS so everything worked, unlike the Xen based ones I've experienced).
How to install yum in CentOS 5?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have core2quad box with 4GB RAM, when i try install CentOS 5.0 on it then it show 3GB RAM only, and CPU just show:
Quote:
Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Processor #1 speed: 1596.000 MHz Processor #1 cache size: 4096 KB
Since the last 6 days ive been trying but dunno how to fix it.
Thing is i want to install vnc on my server.
Therefore i googled some tuts and managed to get things done after some days.
Steps i took.
yum -y groupinstall gnome
yum -y install vnc vnc-server firefox x11-xorg
vncserver
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--------------------ERRORS I AM GETTING-----------------------
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-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
sh: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: No such file or directory
New 'server.xnwo.net:1 (root)' desktop is server.xnwo.net:1
Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/server.xnwo.net:1.log
sh: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: No such file or directory
[root@server ~]#
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
and when i connect using vnc viewer, i get this grey background and a box on the top left. has it been installed correctly? any other steps needed?
Here is the screenshot of the background i see when connecting.
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I would like to get a second opinion on this. I was going to put CentOS 64 bit on my server but I have been told to put the 32 bit version on it instead because it is a more stable version. I have never heard this before and am new to doing colo and would like to verify this before I end up doing something I may forget?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have been using Centos for several years but have not been a user long enough to see what happens when the new version comes out.
I expect Centos 4 will be around a while however how quickly are hosting companies planning to adopt Centos 5?
I've recently started using apt on centos, using the tutorial I found on dag's site. So far I'm enjoying it, since I have years and years of experience running debian unstable.
Are there any caveats? Has anyone here tried doing a dist-upgrade to a new version (say CentOS 5)?
whats the difference with 32bit centos and 64 bit
I heard 64 bit gives better Mysql Performances but if I get 64 bit will I be able to use the same stuff I use on my 32 bit currenty?
Like directAdmin, APF firewall etc.., Just few from top of my head.
Why does CentOS come w/ such an outdated PHP package? IS it modified to fix the bugs, but the version number stayed the same?
I would like to upgrade to PHP 4.4.6 - are there any issues I should be aware of? This is my 1st Linux box and installing software is not something I am really comfortable with yet.
