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 1ORcky-0007qs-JB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:05:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7303E0A01; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49F5E09F7 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [76.14.68.122]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F38A7847E200 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C22CB32.9010209@badapple.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:04:18 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 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> <4C217128.7090503@badapple.net> <4C227518.4040600@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4C227518.4040600@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bd640b16-914d-42d0-a18e-70ead1dc6630 X-Archives-Hash: df5dbfc92b0a550e5e1409da74a2c961 On 6/23/2010 1:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani: > >> I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed >> wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was >> the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd >> suggest at least an extra drive if not more if you can swing it. > > You mean for storing the VMs? > I have two drives locally now, RAID1 mostly. And I also test storing VMs > on an nfsV4-storage via gigabit ethernet. Quite OK. And NFS-storage is > more quiet ;-) That's works. :-) I was doing a fair amount of rpm building, svn to git with large trees, kickstart, Mysql, and Puppet work at a job a few months ago which was hitting the host fairly hard. Between the above and Outlook getting an extra drive to isolate the host OS from the VMs was a requirement. Much smoother after that. kashani