EM64T and linux

[Christopher Browne]

On 4/28/06, Phillip Qin <Phillip.Qin-szgMhqSEIEG+XT7JhA+gdA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> But all the servers Dell offers use the EM64T. I have no choice. The port
> does say "The port consists of kernels for all AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64
> extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common 64bit
> userspace.".

Well, then, that strikes me as an excellent reason to NOT buy servers from Dell.

We stopped doing it a while back because they were severely underperforming.

Here is a canonical example of the trouble with Dell:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-12/msg00164.php

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Way off topic, but Dell regularly advertises included hardware that is
"almost" the same as the name brand hardware if purchased individually.

My brother bought a Dell and needed to upgrade his video driver and the
Dell tech said he has to use Dell's drivers rather than the
manufacturers driver because the video card isn't identical to the
manufacturers.  Of course the manufacturer had an updated driver that
fixed the problem while Dell had only the broken one.  He upgraded the
driver anyway and it worked.

Do you want to purchase hardware from a vendor that tries to shave every
dollar off the hardware cost, even if compatibility or performance
suffers?  I don't.

-- Bruce Momjian
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