Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-11 Thread Martin Cracauer
Paul Pathiakis wrote on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:11:27PM -0400: > On Monday 10 September 2007 14:46:21 Martin Cracauer wrote: > > For integer workloads Intel's Core2-base Xeons outperforms K8 (the > > old-school AMD64) by about 25-30% per clock per core. K10 seems to be > > 5-15% faster than K8 fo

Announcement: Devilator 1.0a for FreeBSD

2007-09-11 Thread Borja Marcos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm happy to announce the first public release (consider it an alpha) of Devilator, a performance data collector for FreeBSD systems that generates Orca compatible files. The README file follows. ***

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-11 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 9/10/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only > > postgresql, a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we > > plan on using it as the OS. > > You might want to wait a little un

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi, We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only postgresql, a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we plan on using it as the OS. You might want to wait a little until 7.0 or until some more important bits get MFC'ed to 6.x: http: