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. :) Greg