Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:03:43 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: 64bit CPUs Message-ID: <20050502230343.GG47820@decibel.org> In-Reply-To: <17014.14219.963494.753741@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2> <42750861.8000509@mac.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050501193659.05483bd0@64.7.153.2> <17014.14219.963494.753741@canoe.dclg.ca>
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:22:03AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes: > > Mike> Thanks! I was worried I was missing something obvious in all > Mike> the 64bit excitement. For my apps where I cant balance across > Mike> multiple machines or where space is an issue, dual core CPUs I > Mike> think might be more interesting to look at in a few months. > > Hi Mike! > > Anyways, we've been finding that raw packet passing is significantly > better on some of the newer tyan opteron boards. But then that may > have as much to do with them shipping with multiple independant PCI-X > slots than the opterons themselves. Memory bandwidth probably doesn't > hurt, either. I was just going to mention that what's more important than gobs of memory is memory bandwidth, which the Opterons have much more of than other CPUs. So any application that needs to move a lot of data, whether a database or a router, will benefit. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant decibel@decibel.org Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
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