Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
The cache alignment happens because it hits a specific size threshold, and jemalloc/phkmalloc(I think!) just round everything up to be page size aligned. The underlying problem may actually be a code change to how the math is done. It just runs slower on page-aligned alignments.. adrian On 22

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-22 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:53:36 -0700 Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. just as a data point - there was a thread a while ago about numeric > processing performance on linux vs bsd. > > It all boiled down to how jemalloc versus the linux allocator(s) allocate > blocks. jemalloc will page align things after

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. just as a data point - there was a thread a while ago about numeric processing performance on linux vs bsd. It all boiled down to how jemalloc versus the linux allocator(s) allocate blocks. jemalloc will page align things after a certain size. Linux didn't. So when doing numeric processing, the

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-20 Thread Vincent Schut
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Vincent Schut wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:08:43 -0500 > > Michael Chen wrote: > > > >> I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: > >> &

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-19 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Vincent Schut wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:08:43 -0500 Michael Chen wrote: I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item2

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-19 Thread Vincent Schut
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:08:43 -0500 Michael Chen wrote: > I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item232f7195cc > > Does anyone

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread iamatt
13 12:17 PM, "Michael Chen" > wrote: > > I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-<http://www.ebay.com/itm/**Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-**> >> 1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread Dennis Glatting
those and they can build it the way you want. Lead time is a couple of months due to build to order. Support from SM sucks too. :) On Sep 17, 2013 12:17 PM, "Michael Chen" wrote: I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/**Supermicro-A-Server-

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread Dennis Glatting
, 2013 12:17 PM, "Michael Chen" wrote: I have three personal systems and two work systems running using the H8DG6 MBs and they work fine. I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/**Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-** 1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-*

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread Dennis Glatting
Forgot to mention: 1) My board is mounted in a SC848 Chassis and I use active cooling. 2) DO NOT run a chassis like the SC848 with the top off or the disks will overheat. :) On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Michael Chen wrote: I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.co

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Michael Chen wrote: I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item232f7195cc Does anyone have experience with it and can I us

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread iamatt
ot; wrote: > I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/**Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-** > 1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-**2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?** > pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=**item232f7195cc<http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-104

this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Chen
I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item232f7195cc Does anyone have experience with it and can I use all the cores