RE: How much space needed for a web server install?

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

well, so far, so good.  Have you found any specific references to this
happening with the AMD761/VIA686B bridge?

and you're sure it's the 686B that's the problem?  All the athlon DDR boards
seem to use that southbridge from what I have seen... 

Just trying to gauge to what degree I should be entering "oh !@#$" mode at
this point :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Diedrich [mailto:ranma@example.com]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:41 AM
To: 'tlug@example.com'
Subject: Re: How much space needed for a web server install?


Scott Stone wrote:

> However, if you'll notice, this board doesn't use a KT133 or KT133A
chipset,
> it uses an AMD761 chipset (the AMD-made DDR chipset) :)

But it is using the suspicous VIA southbridge, right ?
And the article also states, that
"Not only the KT133 and KT133A are affected. Even with the AMD-761
Northbridge
there are transfer errors. Setting UDMA/33, Multiword DMA or even PIO mode
does not resolve this Problems in every case."

For testing Boards they used the following (DOS) Script [Translated to
english]:

set source=f:\somewhere
set destination=i:\temp
set file=\big.zip
:start
copy /b %source%%file% %destination% > nul
fc /b %source%%file% %destination%%file%
if errorlevel==1 goto error
goto start
:error
echo Error!

Where source and destination should be on different hard disks.
And you have to maintain PCI-Bus load by for example playing an MP3 at the
same time.
But: "with some boards it took a few hours for the error to occur"

I would assume you could do the same test with linux

-- 
Tobias
nya~ni ?

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