slava zimine
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 )
I would advise to use SLES9 for this. Oracle and SUSE will only give you support for the Enterprise Server.
Question: 1. what proc to choose ?
1 desktop Amd Athlon 64 3400 (2.2 GHz) or 2 x amd opteron 242 ( 1.6 Ghz)
I would go for two CPUs.
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?
I don't know.
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 .
Really depends on how much memory is used. As always, the more the better - and distribute it evenly to the CPUs, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126