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 1Obed0-0003iJ-Th for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:06:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96AEBE0BE3 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E20BE0A80 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk9 with SMTP id 9so3433294pzk.40 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:35:14 -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=O9GpPEn1Hp++95MvT/ivTH+cMrdd8kImIeMqiWv7Mpo=; b=e/b/Wi3Yawlbpdi4jssHXAQhyveev7I+w2QORDFy1QnTh9tVJnu8Cl3CDbp8p3PsNE 2gqFlG1KzMcLXXH945l+44yaqtpAQnIE9z4y0d+r2CbydcMWbGyQmUBM7BsfKjhwpKgy /peSE+8DFctQo5JmfoglUyMrRBk8KdcxRCOfw= 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=w2g3sWoHXL4FgF6YR53SAGK/5b9DN17x59q1Rdk6B1XVjbKjQeq2EA2fhu9xwqb6Jm u93j054OMGSmdGYAH1tLI3hpffW3o5yajiep5Hv62wJGrSH8TQ8xlymRA8geIMGxBf7m V8DxyXis/6PjVJ6PoeU1sZLUj6F4O4dWBkSLc= Received: by 10.114.111.5 with SMTP id j5mr957423wac.27.1279737312691; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x9sm85664270waj.3.2010.07.21.11.35.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C473DD8.2040401@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:35:04 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100717 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> <4C2138DB.2040502@gmail.com> <4C22759D.6090708@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4C22759D.6090708@xunil.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 12c6d95c-03a9-4998-8439-9eaff52fc6c3 X-Archives-Hash: b16a43a5a2fb3f4fd1cdfd239dc86604 On 06/23/2010 01:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > 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. $ units -1 '2^36 byte' GiB * 64 > I think I could live with this. 8 GB now are more than I currently ever > need. Remember, kids, always recheck your answers, use a number two pencil....