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 ) id 1ORXBP-0000Ri-AJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:08:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78D9FE0C89 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947F1E07E1 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:59:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB08184002 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 19977-08 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EA1CA184001 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:59:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C22759D.6090708@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:59:09 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100619 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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> <4C2138DB.2040502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2138DB.2040502@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: d5bd51ae-125c-4c52-b517-0203a69868b2 X-Archives-Hash: 56077bdfb84a609ccaef1da65d31a9a2 Am 23.06.2010 00:27, schrieb Bill Longman: > - 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. quite a plus with the box running for >10 hrs a day at least ... > - Haven't tried kvm but would probably work fine. I think so. Also the cpu-pinning ... I assume I could then assign one or more of the 8 (virtual) CPUs to a specific VM ... nice ... > - 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. I think I could live with this. 8 GB now are more than I currently ever need. thx, Stefan