Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-03 Thread Bob Sanders
P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: > > When is Barcelona coming out? Would it be expensive because it is new > and a true 4 core chip? > Initial ship in about two months. It'll cost more, but get the Socket F aka 1207 pin socket if you go AMD. > From reading the posts, it seems that memory i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread P.V.Anthony
On this day, 03-August-2007 11:39 AM, Nuitari wrote: If you are going to do a lot of virtual servers then you'd probably want to wait for the Barcelona chips. What kind of loads do you expect? Currently running on Supermicro 1U Pentium 4 2.8mhz with hyper threading for about two years. The

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread Nuitari
Thank you very much for sharing. P.V.Anthony At the end of the day, what will matter is the amount of traffic and the efficiency of the applications. If you are just serving static webpages, a pentium 1 would be enough. If you are going to do a lot of virtual servers then you'd probably wan

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread P.V.Anthony
On this day, 02-August-2007 10:27 PM, Bob Sanders wrote: P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: I must say that I love the intel drivers for the network and sata. If only amd has some chip sets for their own cpus and good open source drivers for their chip sets. Intel has that covered and I think

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread P.V.Anthony
Thank you very much for sharing. P.V.Anthony On this day, 03-August-2007 1:41 AM, Steve Herber wrote: The point of Unix has always been to manage resources. In the old days, where you only had a single CPU, the kernel had to time share among all the different processes. The ps command shows

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Sanders
P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: > > I must say that I love the intel drivers for the network and sata. If > only amd has some chip sets for their own cpus and good open source > drivers for their chip sets. Intel has that covered and I think the > intel drivers are open source. > It's more

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread P.V.Anthony
On this day, 02-August-2007 4:58 PM, Pascal BERTIN wrote: P.V.Anthony a écrit : Apps. 1. Gentoo linux 64bit 2. Apache 2 3. MySql 4. Postgres 5. Qmail 6. Pure-ftpd 7. Mod_perl 8. php 9. ruby aren't you forgetting the app that you will run the most : emerge. This one will really benefit fr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-02 Thread Pascal BERTIN
P.V.Anthony a écrit : > > Apps. > 1. Gentoo linux 64bit > 2. Apache 2 > 3. MySql > 4. Postgres > 5. Qmail > 6. Pure-ftpd > 7. Mod_perl > 8. php > 9. ruby > aren't you forgetting the app that you will run the most : emerge. This one will really benefit from quad core, and during time where you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Nielsen
P.V.Anthony skrev: Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? Hi, Are you absolutely certain that your server can even max out cpu-wise? I've found in 99.99% of the cases it's usually other problems; not enough ram, io or simply wrongly configu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Sanders
P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: > Hi, > > Need some more advice. > > Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? > > The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing > return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and > running a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread P.V.Anthony
On this day, 01-August-2007 11:27 PM, Wil Reichert wrote: Whether a dual core will work well for your situation completely depends on the load and usage patterns. Is this for a server or development machine? Whatever you do, DO NOT buy a pentium 4 dual core. This is for a web and email serv

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Wil Reichert
On 8/1/07, P.V.Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Need some more advice. > > Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? > > The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing > return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and >

[gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread P.V.Anthony
Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and running at 64bit. The server needed to built is for the foll