Home | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactHome | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactI am literally doing a multicast SystemImager install on 38 GX620s at this moment. I built both Red Hat Enterprise 3 and Red Hat Enterprise 4 images on the same box and never had any lockups or crashes. These are the SFF 620s, but we installed ATI cards for accelerated OpenGL.
No problems here so far, but we'll see how these little devils hold up as lab machines when the students are in class.
ryan woodsmall
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Subject: [MLUG] Urgh, I hate dell/intel (trying to install gentoo linux)
We just got in some new Optiplex GX620 machines with dual core
processors. Ya gotta love how crappy these machines are. For a VERY
overpriced, price, you get a ton of crap (literally). On to the
problems now that I've stated that:
I've been fighting with one of these machines for quite a while now.
Initially, things went really well. It seemed to be decently fast
(although I still think the Opteron's/Athlon 64's are faster).
However, after using this thing for a few days, I discovered some ...
problems. Now, some of these problems may be related to trying to
use the 64 bit version of Linux, but it's very odd that it only crops
up after the machine has been running for a day and a half. And,
that if I let the machine sit for a bit of time, whereupon I can run
it for about 5 minutes, before I get problems again. I'm guessing
this is heat related, but it's DANGED annoying. I've gotten a lot of
kernel panics, or just complete hangs at various points. I'm trying
the x86 version now. My first attempt to boot I received tons of
errors, and now, well... it booted, but then it felt really really
slow... URGHHHH.
Ok, enough of that rant. Anyone ever seen a similar issue with these
machines? I'm about to put my fist through it right now... ERGH.
Jason
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