[plug] What version of CPU and Linux do people use?

[Anthony]

>On 15 May 2007 at 14:37, Scott Middleton wrote:

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>> Nearly all new PC based processors in the last year or so are 64bit 
>> compatible. In fact the P4 Prescott (F series) is. Most distros have 
>> an
>> AMD64 bit version and Debian etch was released with its first AMD64 port.
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>I have an F series P4 Prescott - and according to Intel's own diagnostics
utility - my P4 does not support 64 bit. (see below)


>From my experience the later Prescott processes do have EM64T enabled.
This is from a xeon processor but you get the idea.  Notice the 'Extended
feature flags'.


root at server:~# x86info -f
x86info v1.17.  Dave Jones 2001-2005
Feedback to <davej at redhat.com>.

Found 4 CPUs
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CPU #1
/dev/cpu/0/cpuid: No such file or directory
Found unknown cache descriptors: 80 91 96
Family: 15 Model: 4 Stepping: 3 Type: 0 Brand: 0
CPU Model: Pentium 4 (Prescott) [N0]
Processor name string: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz

Feature flags:
 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflsh ds acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe sse3 monitor ds-cpl cntx-id
cx16 xTPR
Extended feature flags:
 SYSCALL em64t
L1 Data cache:
        Size: 16KB      Sectored, 8-way associative.
        line size=64 bytes.
Instruction TLB: 4K, 2MB or 4MB pages, fully associative, 64 entries.
Found unknown cache descriptors: 80 91 96
Data TLB: 4KB or 4MB pages, fully associative, 64 entries.
Processor serial: 0000-0F43-0000-0000-0000-0000
The physical package supports 2 logical processors

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root at server:~# uname -a
Linux server 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 15:34:39 UTC 2006 x86_64
GNU/Linux
root at server:~#


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