On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger >>> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to >>> justify that for me as well ;-) >> >> 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, >> 2 processors and 4GB of RAM. That's 100GB, 20GB DRAM and 10 threads >> total. I then have 2 i7-980X threads & 4GB DRAM for running Gentoo >> as the host. Gentoo runs on RAID1 and I have an additional RAID1 >> which I use to back up the RAID0 daily. > > I see. That's way more than I need here, so I will get through with 8 GB > DRAM easily ... > >> Yeah, dual boot is what I'm doing with the i5-661. The i7-980X only >> runs Gentoo and if I need Windows it's in the 5 VMs described above. >> >> The 980X is expensive to run. It's got 5 hard drives in it (2 for >> RAID0, 3 for RAID1) plus the processor and all that memory burns >> over 300W at idle. > > Also too expensive and big for me. I think I will go for the i5 if I > decide to upgrade. > > Thanks, S > >
Really was too expensive for me also, at least for the actual use I'm making of it so far, but when I need to run a bunch of copies of Windows in parallel it's pretty nice. None the less it is fast. I did the kde-4.4.4 upgrade this morning. 94 minutes on the clock. Something like 287 ebuilds. Doesn't include download time. I did emerge -fDuN earlier: c2stable ~ # time emerge -DuN kde-meta <SNIP> * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 150 info files. * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. * IMPORTANT: 17 config files in '/usr/share/config' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. real 94m25.632s user 246m19.420s sys 36m19.092s c2stable ~ # Even though i have 12 processor threads you can see the effectivity is more like 3 or 4 1 overall. A lot of the kde compile only uses 1 or 2 cores per package and then there's a lot of time spent waiting for hard drives, etc. I did have one vmware instance running at the same time. Cheers, Mark
