Funny, this is exactly what I need my workstation for, and still can't make up our minds between an IBM Intelllistation or a Tyan based machine... _____________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Tel. (+51 1) 275-7523, 275-4708 email: rrpalma@synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws slava zimine <sadko77ch@mail.ru> 06/02/2004 06:41 AM To suse-amd64@suse.com cc Subject [suse-amd64] advise to upgrade my java devpt workstation to desktop amd64 or opteron amd64 Hi to al & esp to Andreas Jaeger I'm seeking for advise to upgrade my workstation to amd64 platform. OS: suse 9.1 main usage: (ejb/servlet swt gui java development ) typical session load: Eclipse-gtk, or Websphere Dev Studio + Jboss or WebSphere App Server or Tomcat + oracle & mysql dbs + vmware sometimes (with XP loaded ) Question: 1. what proc to choose ? 1 desktop Amd Athlon 64 3400 (2.2 GHz) or 2 x amd opteron 242 ( 1.6 Ghz) Are there java performance gains when using opterons which will justify +300$ price difference apart from a reason from sun that it will ship a jvm tuned specifically for amd64 opteron? 2. 1 or 2 Gig RAM Memory ? on my current ahtlon 1400 , 768 Meg Ram the WebSphere App Server takes almost 1.5 min to boot. I'd like to decrease this time . Thank you for you comments. slz -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com