From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-111961-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1ORCWZ-00053l-1e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:04:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5018EE0ABC for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481D3E087E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi3 with SMTP id 3so1343980pwi.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:27:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UqadaR7fHR8QgG2JOTW1X9SpQPcc51ewwFLOJi1HJAo=; b=U3TgU1PFlgQkHWsRIQIMW41ijp3MzPXqkkRPUxOEjFS6YASjH4fm9E1dTfM02sklr5 suF/hUSdC2xmvEh23AHTA+GNBYPJf47sKn6ILxn5wXfxndeBARgKNh6iD9MFraBYqqtL s8rbMnVXVbKhkjuRqHbluWAsUxyz+iuslPn2c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=AbOOhP03ottqos8I6nI2Y2iQWfMQqkDcgRQC1rKEyM3o/iwuej0SpLkmUZ6ThLvKfM UApuZj+OXv3XQYT9sNgzJaJuyUXRajaBiUz7ly5PXOKtXEMN65mI6yBRLp84OrHtBM3V oj416sFrYvzBpLjRJ9jVEOH8ZpqQmEyfDajzU= Received: by 10.115.98.4 with SMTP id a4mr6464037wam.177.1277245661597; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c22sm103376269wam.18.2010.06.22.15.27.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2138DB.2040502@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:27:39 -0700 From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] core i5 References: <4C21317C.2010100@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4C21317C.2010100@xunil.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8d27ff14-62ce-4bec-992b-34d53a90651a X-Archives-Hash: d03c24aab1db9db6b18cbc336dc6a939 On 06/22/2010 02:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > again ... I consider buying a new box for work. > > currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of > ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. > > but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... > > Will it be the same when I go for a core i5? > > I use that box for virtualization as well (vmware and kvm), so maybe it > would also help to not only change cpu but also add 2 cores (going > quadcore). > > I just want to hit the sweet spot if that's possible. > > And I'd like to hear any pros and cons if you would like to share. - core i7 @ 1.6GHz gives me eight threads. The RAM is really fast, too, so the overall system is very responsive. Great power savings stuff. - Haven't tried kvm but would probably work fine. - From /proc/cpuinfo: address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual That's only 8GB physical, but that's probably a reasonable limit at the moment.