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On 6/23/2010 1:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani: |
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>> I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed |
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>> wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was |
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>> the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd |
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>> suggest at least an extra drive if not more if you can swing it. |
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> You mean for storing the VMs? |
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> I have two drives locally now, RAID1 mostly. And I also test storing VMs |
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> on an nfsV4-storage via gigabit ethernet. Quite OK. And NFS-storage is |
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> more quiet ;-) |
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That's works. :-) I was doing a fair amount of rpm building, svn to git |
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with large trees, kickstart, Mysql, and Puppet work at a job a few |
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months ago which was hitting the host fairly hard. Between the above and |
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Outlook getting an extra drive to isolate the host OS from the VMs was a |
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requirement. Much smoother after that. |
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kashani |
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