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On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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> Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger |
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>>> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to |
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>>> justify that for me as well ;-) |
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>> 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, |
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>> 2 processors and 4GB of RAM. That's 100GB, 20GB DRAM and 10 threads |
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>> total. I then have 2 i7-980X threads & 4GB DRAM for running Gentoo |
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>> as the host. Gentoo runs on RAID1 and I have an additional RAID1 |
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>> which I use to back up the RAID0 daily. |
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> I see. That's way more than I need here, so I will get through with 8 GB |
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> DRAM easily ... |
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>> Yeah, dual boot is what I'm doing with the i5-661. The i7-980X only |
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>> runs Gentoo and if I need Windows it's in the 5 VMs described above. |
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>> The 980X is expensive to run. It's got 5 hard drives in it (2 for |
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>> RAID0, 3 for RAID1) plus the processor and all that memory burns |
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>> over 300W at idle. |
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> Also too expensive and big for me. I think I will go for the i5 if I |
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> decide to upgrade. |
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> Thanks, S |
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Really was too expensive for me also, at least for the actual use I'm |
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making of it so far, but when I need to run a bunch of copies of |
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Windows in parallel it's pretty nice. |
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None the less it is fast. I did the kde-4.4.4 upgrade this morning. 94 |
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minutes on the clock. Something like 287 ebuilds. Doesn't include |
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download time. I did emerge -fDuN earlier: |
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c2stable ~ # time emerge -DuN kde-meta |
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<SNIP> |
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* Regenerating GNU info directory index... |
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* Processed 150 info files. |
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* IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. |
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* IMPORTANT: 17 config files in '/usr/share/config' need updating. |
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* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge |
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* man page to learn how to update config files. |
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real 94m25.632s |
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user 246m19.420s |
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sys 36m19.092s |
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c2stable ~ # |
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Even though i have 12 processor threads you can see the effectivity is |
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more like 3 or 4 1 overall. A lot of the kde compile only uses 1 or 2 |
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cores per package and then there's a lot of time spent waiting for |
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hard drives, etc. |
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I did have one vmware instance running at the same time. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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