[Asterisk-Users] high-capacity systems / trouble with Tyan

[Chris A. Icide]

one other question:

What kind of power supply do you have in the AMD system?  On my 2466, I had 
alot of problems until I upgraded my power supply to a high quality 500W 
unit.  I seem to remember a while back reading that AMD systems were much 
more sensitive to power issues that comparable Pentium units.

On 02:23 PM 11/10/2004, mattf wrote:
 >Hello,
 >
 >I've had a Tyan dual Athlon MP(2800) machine for a year now and have had
 >several lockups for strange reasons on stock redhat kernel and on custom
 >compiled kernel off of Slackware. I've tried every combination of BIOS
 >settings and changed out all assiciated hardware and found the problem: It's
 >the Tyan. I've also had issues with a couple of SCSI RAID cards when I tried
 >using them with the Tyan card.
 >
 >This all would have really upset me if the Athlon MP platform performed
 >better than the Intel platform, but it doesn't. This Dual Athlon MP system
 >actually handles LESS total Asterisk load than a single P4 3.2 GHz, and the
 >P4 has a lot more Motherboard options and cost much less.
 >
 >This is just my experience, I'm sure I am using Asterisk a little
 >differently than you, I don't have 3 Quad T1 cards in any of my machines,
 >but if that's what you're looking for, I'd suggest the PowerPC(Mac)
 >platform. Asterisk installs just fine right on top of Yellow Dog Linux and
 >the bus speed of a Mac mops the floor with most x86 motherboards, meaning
 >more bandwidth for those bus-hungry Digium boards.
 >
 >MATT---