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 1OSDoX-0001PJ-1s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:39:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CBFCE0A70; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:39:12 +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 D8886E0A70 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi3 with SMTP id 3so2729474pwi.40 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:39:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UmwIjdSikAQxFr/PVf2NXZhYinzPRJZxYtUBDkjsSmY=; b=JVie9cvbVhRqZ53PXkjXzK033t9leetlgMhc6PrFySpILhZweYNfHw3Uox/nr2L6s8 H5xz/C2WFJX7HvqlKI/tn9paaU3l+R8+Wllf7fESn5gRONz71yvX7ZYz71ZAl9aHLBDz epl2nie7BXwHG5eCOlvGGNWFwW51GjFapdBQ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SErH4rPyILdM1qJwuG1zrhgujpsHR7+Adq8Ft5WrEMaQlGLEXqu754zZqbwSVrDMn+ nV1KELevurF/jOdI1XBywTOw2rY4vgsix+NKGvT50N9bCelz8zH1rPz9f0hKEwAokVaX aifZuJC3tyveiPMitl1ABIrYntLt5JW/IkDC0= 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 10.115.58.4 with SMTP id l4mr1403767wak.11.1277491151387; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.108.17 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:39:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4C21317C.2010100@xunil.at> <4C227495.6010706@xunil.at> <4C228CD3.3030500@xunil.at> <4C24A688.6050701@xunil.at> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:39:11 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7lTwP6ZdyC3cvZk8XAutP6eW9bc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] core i5 From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bfd06d37-0abf-4356-8319-206c14c166a1 X-Archives-Hash: 1f3b88ae82d931322835fc18cdc0fcf9 On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wr= ote: >> 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 > > > =A0* Regenerating GNU info directory index... > =A0* Processed 150 info files. > > =A0* IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. > > =A0* IMPORTANT: 17 config files in '/usr/share/config' need updating. > =A0* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge > =A0* man page to learn how to update config files. > > real =A0 =A094m25.632s > user =A0 =A0246m19.420s > sys =A0 =A0 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. Try adding -j to emerge and watch it truly maximize your cores. When I emerged KDE it was compiling something like 90 packages simultaneously.