Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 12:53, JJB wrote:
>   
> > Price for the system is the same with quad core 1.6 or dual core 3.0
> > ghz,
> >     
>
> That's an interesting pair of options. I wonder how to analyze one's 
> applications to make the better choice.
>
>   
The more cores contending for memory access, the more your system
falls short of theoretical maximum throughput.

So, go with the high-speed dual core rather than the low-speed
quad-core.  Memory contention issues will more than destroy the
theoretical 0.4 GHz*CPU advantage of the quad core.

>   
> > It has mirrored drives... Do your think that cvs + subversion will
> > get any benefit from 2gb vs 1gb?
> >     
>
> That's hard to say. (Why are you using CVS _and_ Subversion??)
>
> Depending on the frequency and nature of client interactions with the 
> CVS and / or Subversion servers and the size of their repositories, it 
> could be very helpful or undetectable.
>
> Given the marginal cost, in a corporate setting I'd just go for the 2 GB 
> configuration right off.
>
>
>   
> > Joel
> >     
>
>
> Randall Schulz
>   



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