Re: [SLE] amd athlon kernel

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:30:37 -0500

On Monday 22 September 2003 12:58, fsanta wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2003 16:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Monday 22 September 2003 16.36, fsanta wrote:
> > > Hi everyone. I just bought a new box with an AMD XP 2200 processor.YOU
> > > pulled down a big patch last night and I now have k_athlon-2.4.20-100.
> > > Is this correct for 8.2?
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > > Also, what's the difference between the Intel and the
> > > AMD kernel anyway?
> >
> > The compiler options used to build it. The athlon kernel is built with
> > optimisations specific for the athlon instruction set, and the default
> > kernel is built with a generic pentium instruction set that all
> > processors can handle.
>
> Are there any strong reasons not to go with AMD rather than Intel? Are
> there any reliabilty issues? Financially AMD makes lot of sense and we are
> thinking of 18 new boxes like mine for our school lan which would be as it
> is now: 100% SuSE 8.2. We can pick up the boxes for Euros 400 whereas an
> PIV 2.4 is over Euros 600. Any other long term AMD users here?
> Cheers, Steve.

Hello Steve,

        I have been using an AMD-based machine here at work for 4 years with
absolutely NO problems or crashes. My workstation/server runs 24/7/365 and
has never crashed. Given how heavily I use it that's quite an accomplishment.

I use it as a development workstation for C, C++, Perl, HTML; it runs Apache
webserver; runs as a MySQL database server for my automation software; runs
my automation software; runs as a backup server for Suns, Dec Alphas, NT
servers and equipment; and I use it to administer all of the above systems.
It has been more stable than the Sun Enterprise server.

I will say that I built this box to run SuSE Linux exclusively. Therefore, I
purchased equipment that was certified to work with SuSE Linux 7.0 at the
time. I ran SuSE 7.0 Professional on it for 3 years without any crashes. The
message log was clean with no errors, meaning the system was very compatible
with the hardware I chose. Nearly 3 months ago, (due to a bug in PartED that
scrambled my inodes) I upgraded to SuSE 8.2 and the system has been running
just as stable with it.

My work system:

AMD 800MHz Thunderbird
Asus A7V KT133 motherboard
Mitsumi 42X CD-ROM
768 Meg Infineon SDRAM non-ECC
ATI 8meg PCI All-In-Wonder video
Quantum IDE HDs (1-20G, 2-30G)
Allied Telesyn 10/100 NIC
Good quality Thermaltake CPU heatsink/fan
Teac 1.44 floppy

My home AMD system is older but heavily overclocked. It runs very stable as
well. It has SCSI HDs, wireless NIC and 10/100 NIC, runs Apache, MySQL,
Sendmail, DNS, Proxy, ect... It only runs at 400MHz. (It's max cpu speed was
only suppose to be a 233 Pentium. I found some special tweeks for the AMD).

Jack A.

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