Im still trying to find that doc. there was a part there that says HT wont benifit much from HT unless the system has fully utilized the 2 processors.. they said it will be fixed in the new kernels.. since fc3 was out.. im keen to test again ;p
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:00:20 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:43:33 +0800, Roger Filomeno > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Im also looking at using itanium series, anyone have experience? > > You sure you want to go that route? Freaking expensive lot aside from > having its own set of issues. You can't run your existing 32 bit > applications without incurring a very heavy speed penalty (if you can > even make them run at all - best luck is go all native in this as IA64 > instruction set is yet another instruction set architecture > incompatible with IA32). If you have that budget you might as well > get better-engineered chips with machines using Power5 or UltraSPARC > IV cores :) [the Z-series mainframes would be overkill anyway] > > If you have existing Intel-32bit applications, you can still opt for > the Athlon-MP (they're quite good too, and cheaper than Intel) or Xeon > as these are cheap. Or go AMD64 (Opteron or Intel's Nocona Xeon). > <bias ahead>The Opteron is cheaper and scales better though when you > add more memory compared to the Nocona</bias ahead> > > -- > > > Paolo Alexis Falcone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- - Home of Friendster Mobile (w/Webcam) http://fingerapps.com/desk/ - News: Friendster Mobile Launched http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=18838 ---- Roger P. Filomeno *Systems Developer / R&D - Finger Apps Inc, http://fingerapps.com *Systems Developer - Entertainment Gateway Group, http://egg.ph *Systems Developer - Friendster Mobile Philippines, http://friendster.com *Mobile Specialist - RITMA, Madrid-Spain *Systems Specialist - komsai Org, University of the Philippines in the Visayas *Registered Linux User # 367694 *VOIP # 7041530 (InPhonex) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
