Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have > >> been looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc. > > > > ... > > > >> I saw a Fry's add for a motherboard, an AMD 8 Core CPU and memory > >> for > > > > That's a 125 watt CPU (ouch!). That's two 60 watt incandescent bulbs > > worth of juice and heat output at full load, one bulb worth at idle, > > and a relatively loud stock cooler to prevent it from melting. > > > > Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact > > you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend a > > dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the 2nd > > core is pretty much always idle, with primary core being idle most > > of the time as well, as is everyone's. > > I don't know if this makes a difference, but... While this is a home > machine there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter. We > are all logged in all the time and we are all running separate X > sessions all the time. That way, it is just a Ctl-Alt-Fx keystroke for > any one of us to get to our session as we left it. Will multiple X > sessions each run in their own core, or will they all be running in a > single core. If the former, then I can make use of some of those extra > cores, if the latter, then fewer cores running at faster speeds does > make more sense. Can anyone answer this question?
You should have one X server process for each display. And that answers the question, cause Linux is perfectly capable to distribute different processes as well as different threads over different cores. > If I decide that the extra cores are not useful then the hardware that > you recommend is a distinct possibility. I like the idea of simply > using an SSD. That would really speed things up and make the system > more responsive and 120GB is more than enough space for me if the old > box stays up as a server. If it does not, then the 1 TB drive goes > into the new machine. I have several extra cases around that I could > probably fit it into, still allowing me to keep the old box if it will > run properly without X on it. Why not just put both the SSD and the 1 TB disk into the new machine and spare yourself the old server? -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201210291918.17945.mar...@lichtvoll.de
