Hello Herman,


> Furthermore, if one of these processor hangs you get an automatic reboot
> and until these processor is replaced you cannot startup the box.



This is interesting.
Can you point me to some published bug or something in the AMD support about
this issue?

We test IBM xSeries servers with X3 chipset and there are more performant
> in OLTP real situations because they have a memory controller with the
> pointer of all data in processor and avoid snoop request.
> In summary AMD Opteron is faster than Intel with 8500 chipset (HP, Dell
> and
> many others) and slower than Intel with X3 chipset in OLTP transactions.



Have you got any benchmark on this?
Can you describe the tests you performed?

Really glad
Fabrizio