Re: actual technical questions (was Re: [SAGE] Did everyone Migrate to LOPSA ?)

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Lloyd" == Lloyd Cha <lccha@pobox.com> writes:

Lloyd> Once upon a time (like on Nov 23, 2005), John Clear wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:08:57PM -0800, Jim Dennis wrote:
>> >     * Has anyone here been trying to run RHEL3 on x86_64 hardware
>> >       with 8 to 32 GiB of RAM? Do you also have stability problems?
>> >       Anyone have a stable Linux x86_64 infrastructure on any 2.4 based
>> >       kernels?  (RE: RHEL3 and 2.4 on x86_64)

Lloyd> We have RHEL3u5 running on Opterons with anywhere from 8GB to 64GB of
Lloyd> RAM.  They have been mostly stable.  We have had a few issues, but I
Lloyd> believe most were related to hardware memory problems.

I'll chime in here as well, we're running RHEL 3 (with a self compiled
slightly hacked kernel) on Rackable Opteron boxes upto 32gb without
any problems.  It just runs.  

More details if you need it.  

John