On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 02:31 +0200, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Mandag den 25. oktober 2004 22:37 skrev Greg Macek:
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:44 +0200, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Fredag den 22. oktober 2004 23:04 skrev Greg Macek:
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:56 -0400, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2004 14:37, Greg Macek wrote:
Mike,
How would you describe the performance, perceived and maybe actual numbers, of suse's 64 bit linux? I'm a coworker of Preston's and we're working on some data crunching and planning to use a setup with this board at the base of it all. Is everything a LOT faster, just a little bit? The work we do now is on P4 2.0GHz machines... we're moving to A64/3500+ CPU's. I know I'm not giving many specs on our work, but I can't really talk about it either. :) Just curious on what performance increases you've seen just by moving to 64-bit.
Greg
I have an 64bit Athlon 3000+ on a MSI board. I first installed 9.1 32bit and then did a clean install of the 64bit version. I don't have any hard data but subjectively the improvement was modest at best. You will get a more noticeable increase in performance by moving to a faster chip. On the other hand, I recently installed the 64bit version on a dual Opteron 242 system with dual SATA drives. I can tell you that that system *screams*. Even with a cheap 32meg RAM video card images are rendered immediately and windows just pop up instantaneously. Unfortunately this will be a server so I'll never get to enjoy it but it sure is going to be fun to configure.
Jeff
Thanks for the reply. I wish we had the funds for this project to go Opeteron. I chickened out at the last second on SATA drives as well, since I haven't worked with them under Linux yet and don't have time to deal with any weird issues. I look forward to seeing 64-bit Linux. :)
Following things it looks like they've been working hard on SATA support since the release of 9.1. My guestimate is that all the usual suspects (controller cards from Promise/3ware should be supported now - anyone correct me if I'm wrong). As for SATA in general I have 2 WD 250GB SATA drives on my ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe and they perform very well.
Next step is actually to get a 939 (AMD 64) based board too to endulge in some numbercrunching too.
Have a look at: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/ http://www.anandtech.com/linux/
check the motherboardsection here: http://www.linuxhardware.org
I'm currently
Well, good news on the time trials. For the work our code needs to do (word search in large bodies of text using Perl), it look less than 1/2 the time it did before! Amazing. Only if I had the money for Opteron or an FX chip. :) Everything seems to be working great so far as well. Go 64-bit.
Greg
Could I ask you to drop a note on your
Motherboard (939 socket) CPU RAM
And level of SuSE 9.1 support
A note on to what extend ethtoo/mii-tool works with that combination
I'm also currently looking into som nice BIG PSU like this:
Watch for MN5 / MN6 http://www.amtrade.com/pc_power/switching_power_supplies.htm#12
Have any of you seen this or similar in Europe
Will be needed for a little storage and enough juice to provide for som 10 to 15 HD's (guestimate atm).
Any experience on SATA controllers to complete the perfect test/dev/numbercruncher ;-)
TIA
Johan
Well, obviously we're using a A8V MB (based on the thread), Athlon64/3500+ CPU, 1GB (2x512MB) Corsair RAM, WD 120GB IDE HD, Enermax 420W (I think) PSU, MSI MX4000 vid card... the rest was built on board. Ethernet works fine, video is fine after installing the nvidia drivers (no tests on this - we don't care about video speed). We just have the standard support that comes with purchasing the distro. Nothing special. Hope this info helps.