Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:53:36
Message-Id: 200601022249.05786.mcbrides9@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron by Dale
1 On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote:
2 > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
3 > >As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very
4 > >nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during
5 > >which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not
6 > >stutter).
7 >
8 > No offense but my main rig does about that. It's just a AMD 2500+ with
9 > 1GB of ram, running at 2GHz though. I was thinking about building me a
10 > new rig but if I won't see any more improvement than that, I'll spend my
11 > money somewhere else, maybe some glasses for a start. O_O
12 >
13 > Dale
14 >
15 > Still sleepy, going back to bed. -_- <---- < closed eyes > LOL
16 >
17 > --
18 > To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
19 >
20 > I have four rigs:
21 >
22 > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now
23 > two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD
24 > 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built;
25 > Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named
26 > Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram
27 > and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
28 >
29 > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are
30 > set up as servers.
31
32 It'd be good and very helpful if we could see a "emerge -pe world >
33 some.log.file" output from both systems.
34
35 I've got an old k6-2 550mgz that finishes "emerge -e world" before some of my
36 faster rigs, only because it's a server and not a desktop like it's faster
37 cousins.
38
39
40 --
41 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.com>