Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Scott Long wrote: With FreeBSD, it's a bit of a toss-up. There is no strong affinity set or enforced between process memory and where the process is running. Having some notion of affinity (i.e. NUMA support) would be a good thing. Oh, and the 4+2 configurations are typical

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-05 Thread Freebsd9999
In a message dated 2/4/05 11:29:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > D'oh. One other thing. In the benchmarks I've seen, Opterons "Play > Nicer" with SMP because of the Hypertransport setup in some > applications. (IE, they don't fight over memory the way Xeons do). > Look for

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Scott Long
Astrodog wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:38:43 -0800, Astrodog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:37:08 +0100 (CET), Claus Guttesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But how do they compare performance wise; specifically r

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Scott Long
Astrodog wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:37:08 +0100 (CET), Claus Guttesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But how do they compare performance wise; specifically related to FreeBSD? We have a dual xeon (nocona) @ 3.2 GHz and a dual op

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Astrodog
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:38:43 -0800, Astrodog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:37:08 +0100 (CET), Claus Guttesen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost > > > as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But > > > how do they compare performance wise; specific

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Astrodog
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:37:08 +0100 (CET), Claus Guttesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost > > as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But > > how do they compare performance wise; specifically > > related to FreeBSD? > > We have a dual xeon (nocona) @ 3.2 GHz and a du

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Freebsd9999
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >> Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost >> as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But >> how do they compare performance wise; specifically >> related to FreeBSD? > >We have a dual xeon (nocona) @ 3.2 GHz and a dual >opteron @ 2 GHz, both with 4 GB RAM and running the >amd

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost > as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But > how do they compare performance wise; specifically > related to FreeBSD? We have a dual xeon (nocona) @ 3.2 GHz and a dual opteron @ 2 GHz, both with 4 GB RAM and running the amd64-port. My impression is that the op

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-03 Thread pete wright
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:41:43 -0700, Nick Pavlica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this would depend on your application, but I have hear allot > of good things about AMD 64. > > --Nick > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:04:21 -0500, Nathan Vidican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Just

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Pavlica
I think this would depend on your application, but I have hear allot of good things about AMD 64. --Nick On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:04:21 -0500, Nathan Vidican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Just looking for general opinions and/or advice regarding use of one over > the other. > > Cost w

Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
Hey all, Just looking for general opinions and/or advice regarding use of one over the other. Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But how do they compare performance wise; specifically related to FreeBSD? (Not subscribed to both lists I sent this to, please