On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
One dual core opteron compared to two single core opterons:
Each opteron has a memory controller built in that does dual channel
memory support. A dual core opteron still only has one memory
controller and hypertransport to the chipset. The two cores share it,
so two single cores have theoretically twice the memory bandwidth of a
single dual core. Of course they also require a dual socket board
rather than a single socket board, and you could put two dual core
opterons in a dual board and get to use 4 cores total without having to
pay for a much more expensive 4 socket board. Two cores in one package
may on the other hand have faster access to each other's caches which
may be an advantage in some situations, while in others sharing the
memory bandwidth could hurt. At the same time the dual core would
always have it's memory local, while two single cores half the ram is
likely connected to the other cpu so access would have a 1 cycle penalty
for access. A decent OS would try to make sure applications are running
on the cpu whos ram they are currently in whenever possible.
Hi,
Thanks for the information. If you have experience of using dual core
processors with Debian, I'd be glad to hear of the details.
Best regards, Faheem.
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