What hardware does KernelTrap use?

Submitted by Jeremy
on August 5, 2003 - 2:07pm

KernelTrap is running on a dedicated server. As of January 15, 2007, the server has the following specs:

  • PowerEdgeSC 1435
  • Dual Core AMD Opteron(r) 2212HE; 2.0GHz, 2X1MB Cache, 1Ghz HyperTransport
  • 2 GB Ram (667 MHz)
  • Mirrored 250 GB SATA II 7.2K RPM hard drives

KernelTrap uses the Gentoo Linux distribution.


For reference, our old dedicated server purchased with reader donations had the following specs:

  • Supermicro P4SGR motherboard
  • Intel Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz, 533 Mhz FSB, 512 L2 cache
  • 2 GB Ram (333 MHz)
  • 70 GB U160 10k SCSI hard drives