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 1OSDAr-0005ul-AV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:58:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79E32E09F6; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:58:36 +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 4822FE09F6 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi3 with SMTP id 3so2710787pwi.40 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=RavSdA7i1ai4RG9nV/5hLdEjCPppWOgvIttbV4LdGe0=; b=bzrZedZd3ArzQb91zVXdX45tqe6IvBGPchZTPFYpvqJHUXQ6zDIEsABFXn2iwqqCFJ iYJhb8J5MQk0GrI8wUvISp/E60ThMtgrIYYqe9+imAuBi3u8nnetf0rAqiHa+w3CjcTA x/k/Dc362oOZLIcYV+n+AFKc2OtFEHDXy3uXM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=fOGAKSphxCiBX+K1185HnsQXguYvI4wxweU1YJVI3u4CP1w+/n1MhUnyBZJvEH5WFd 0DGLgK8ZVAM4SBfTTUrH8ZHqRgTtfO9HTZoRbG6v5ziGpQy3smn2fwpBknSr9Z5dihY6 xrNbkhqmvEwHg4xcYDcUIC83u2QcN1ZKVJQ3c= 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 Received: by 10.142.209.15 with SMTP id h15mr1413909wfg.150.1277488715639; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.98.3 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C24A688.6050701@xunil.at> References: <4C21317C.2010100@xunil.at> <4C227495.6010706@xunil.at> <4C228CD3.3030500@xunil.at> <4C24A688.6050701@xunil.at> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:35 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] core i5 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 5cd0ec27-6c1d-4412-a8f4-8183d051abcd X-Archives-Hash: 7b8fabd4252e12d61e1d9f9aea2ecb12 On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger >>> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to >>> justify that for me as well ;-) >> >> 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, >> 2 processors and 4GB of RAM. That's 100GB, 20GB DRAM and 10 threads >> total. I then have 2 i7-980X threads & 4GB DRAM for running Gentoo >> as the host. Gentoo runs on RAID1 and I have an additional RAID1 >> which I use to back up the RAID0 daily. > > I see. That's way more than I need here, so I will get through with 8 GB > DRAM easily ... > >> Yeah, dual boot is what I'm doing with the i5-661. The i7-980X only >> runs Gentoo and if I need Windows it's in the 5 VMs described above. >> >> The 980X is expensive to run. It's got 5 hard drives in it (2 for >> RAID0, 3 for RAID1) plus the processor and all that memory burns >> over 300W at idle. > > Also too expensive and big for me. I think I will go for the i5 if I > decide to upgrade. > > Thanks, S > > Really was too expensive for me also, at least for the actual use I'm making of it so far, but when I need to run a bunch of copies of Windows in parallel it's pretty nice. None the less it is fast. I did the kde-4.4.4 upgrade this morning. 94 minutes on the clock. Something like 287 ebuilds. Doesn't include download time. I did emerge -fDuN earlier: c2stable ~ # time emerge -DuN kde-meta * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 150 info files. * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. * IMPORTANT: 17 config files in '/usr/share/config' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. real 94m25.632s user 246m19.420s sys 36m19.092s c2stable ~ # Even though i have 12 processor threads you can see the effectivity is more like 3 or 4 1 overall. A lot of the kde compile only uses 1 or 2 cores per package and then there's a lot of time spent waiting for hard drives, etc. I did have one vmware instance running at the same time. Cheers, Mark