Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all. I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions and CPU stories from Y'all To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the s

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:13:08PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >The only problem I had with JFS was what I have with all > >metadata-journal-only: I don't have a UPS and some files would go > >missing. > > ?? simply turn on autosave in your application.. or dig throug

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-14 Thread Karl Schmidt
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I had great success with JFS except that I switch away from it when told by the maintainer that IBM didn't recommend using it anymore. Could that be that they want you to use somethi

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > >I had great success with JFS except that I switch away from it when told > >by the maintainer that IBM didn't recommend using it anymore. > > Could that be that they want you to use something they m

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:41:05PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > UPS's are way cheap. You should just grab a generic one from somewhere. > Chances are NUT will support it. It supported one I bought as an impulse > by from a local supermarket! I (and many others) have gotten the APC SU1500VA on sa

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Oborn
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20:25PM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler with the default debian compile that seems to effect the performance, but it's certainl

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Schmidt
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I had great success with JFS except that I switch away from it when told by the maintainer that IBM didn't recommend using it anymore. Could that be that they want you to use something they make that you have to pay for? IBM isn't supporting it, but it is supported

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
UPS's are way cheap. You should just grab a generic one from somewhere. Chances are NUT will support it. It supported one I bought as an impulse by from a local supermarket! Dean I use ext3 with data=journal mode since the power goes out here and I don't have a UPS. With default mode, only t

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:04:32PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Truly have found ext3 to be ho-hum, but I guess that's the > > point;^) > > It's reliable, the performance is decent. > > I tried XFS for a while, but that was around 2.6.10, and there were some > serious bugs at the tim

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20:25PM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: > To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has > been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler > with the default debian compile that seems to effect the > performance, but it's certainly nothing to write ho

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Im running XFS on my desktop and laptop So far so good. Dean Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-06-12T08:05:28-0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: Don't want to start a war, but I'd like to hear about your filesystem suggestions:^) I use ext3 and have no reason to consider anything else. reiser is the

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-06-12T08:05:28-0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Don't want to start a war, but I'd like to hear about your > filesystem suggestions:^) I use ext3 and have no reason to consider anything else. reiser is the only file system that I have lost data with. /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:05:28AM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Thanks for the replies so far. > > Don't want to start a war, but I'd like to hear about your > filesystem suggestions:^) I use ext3. I might go to ext4 the day it is done. > Seriously thinking of going with Reiser4. I've

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:05 -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: > On June 11, 2008 11:20:25 pm Chris Wakefield wrote: > > Greetings all. > > > > I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I > > may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some > > suggestions and CPU stories from Y'all > > >

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Wakefield
On June 11, 2008 11:20:25 pm Chris Wakefield wrote: > Greetings all. > > I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I > may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some > suggestions and CPU stories from Y'all > > To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has > been a ho-hum

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:15:09AM -0400, C. Ahlstrom wrote: > I've had the opposite experience (AMD being a bit faster). However, > three things: > >1. Tweak and build my own kernel, setting scheduler parameters. (Any > apparent performance increase may be dumb luck, thouhg.) > >

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20:25PM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Greetings all. > > I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I > may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions > and CPU stories from Y'all > > To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' ha

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread C. Ahlstrom
Dean Hamstead 18:28 Thu 12 Jun intel cpus are smashing AMD cpus except in the very low end market you are best off buying an intel quad core... sadly. Chris Wakefield wrote: To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has been a ho-hum experience; don't know if

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
intel cpus are smashing AMD cpus except in the very low end market you are best off buying an intel quad core... sadly. Dean Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all. I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions and CPU stor

C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Wakefield
Greetings all. I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions and CPU stories from Y'all To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler with the default