Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

[Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>]

On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very
> >nice.  An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during
> >which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not
> >stutter).
>
> No offense but my main rig does about that.  It's just a AMD 2500+ with
> 1GB of ram, running at 2GHz though.  I was thinking about building me a
> new rig but if I won't see any more improvement than that, I'll spend my
> money somewhere else, maybe some glasses for a start.  O_O
>
> Dale
>
> Still sleepy, going back to bed.    -_-  <----   < closed eyes >  LOL
>
> --
> To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
>
> I have four rigs:
>
> 1:  Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now
> two 80GB hard drives.  Named Smoker 2:  Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD
> 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.  Named Swifty 3:  Home built;
> Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.  Named
> Pokey 4:  Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram
> and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.  Named Putput
>
> All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are
> set up as servers.

It'd be good and very helpful if we could see a "emerge -pe world > 
some.log.file" output from both systems.

I've got an old k6-2 550mgz that finishes "emerge -e world" before some of my 
faster rigs, only because it's a server and not a desktop like it's faster 
cousins.


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