pk wrote:

> Aragorn wrote:
>
>> again, that system has 32 GB of RAM in it, so your mileage may vary. ;-)
>
> And I thought my 8GB were a lot! :-)

That machine is destined to be used with multiple Gentoo instances running
atop of the Xen hypervisor. My goal is to set up four Gentoo instances -
the privileged virtual machine included - of which one will be a GUI
workstation installation with KDE, OpenOffice and various other graphical
applications, and the others being basically headless virtual servers. ;-)

The hardware for that machine - Tyan twin-socket ccNUMA board, twin dualcore
HE Opterons (2.6 GHz, 68 Watt), 32 GB ECC registered RAM (ATP pc5300), four
Hitachi 15k SAS 147 GB disks in RAID 5 on an Adaptec 32105 PCIe adapter,
Zippy 800 Watt EPS12V power supply and a CoolerMaster CM-832 chassis with
four 12cm fans - has taken a serious bite out of my piggybank as well...
Let's just say that one could buy a fairly small yet brandnew car for that
money - think "Opel(/Vauxhall) Astra" in basic trim, with the 1.4-liter 16v
engine...

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Aragorn
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)