Editing 2010 venus upgrade

Board from Moose: LANPARTY nF4 with an AMD 3800 X2 * Moose says: ''the two ethernet ports on that board are a Marvell SysKonnect GigE and an nVidia nForce'' This page documents the installation and switchover of: * the new [[D510MO]] which turned into the Union Street Media server, and * the new AMD 3800x2. ===Expenses=== * LANPARTY nF4 with AMD 3800x2, Socket 939 version, + $125 from Moose * Drives, used: 2 x 300G, $70 from Moose * Memory, used: 2 x 1G, from Moose, + 2 x ??? gift from Barrington * Case, used: gift from Barrington ===Initial Patching & Hardening=== * [x] 2010-07-23: Installed Solaris, ZFS root pool * [x] Did ''not'' have to do adjustments to /etc/driver_aliases as we did for [[D510MO]] * [x] Install recommended patch cluster 10/07 * [x] Install new pkg-get, "pkgutil" with [[Install pkgutil]] * [x] Install wget * [x] Install & run pca * [x] Install [[jass]] * [x] create daniel & denny accounts * [x] install sudo * [x] create a zone "mercury" /root/mercury.cfg * [x] Install [[2010-04_venus_packages|packages]] ===CPU Comparison=== To convert eighty, 100-200K images to thumbs and web size, the Atom D510 is about 5x faster: (image source: unknown) || ||'''E220R'''||'''Atom D510'''|| ||real || 2m44.060s|| 0m32.843s|| ||user || 2m14.316s|| 0m58.774s|| ||sys || 0m18.915s|| 0m7.858s|| To convert 65, 1-M images to thumbs and web size, the AMD3800x2 is about 15x faster: (image source: ~daniel/www/pride2008/pics/Cameron_MacLeod) || ||'''E220R'''||'''AMD 3800x2'''|| ||real || 39m55.638s|| 2m39.169s|| ||user || 37m50.392s|| 2m27.645s|| ||sys || 1m30.417s|| 0m8.290s|| mercnew:

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