Re: FreeBSD on AMD Epyc boards

2018-02-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 2/14/2018 3:15 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > On the plus side: 16+16 cores, on the minus: A low CPU tact of 2.2 GHz. > Would a box like this be better for a package build host instead of 4+4 cores > with 3.x GHz ? jail server. Lots of processes ---Mike > -- --- Mike

package building performance (was: Re: FreeBSD on AMD Epyc boards)

2018-02-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:15:53AM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > On the plus side: 16+16 cores, on the minus: A low CPU tact of 2.2 GHz. > Would a box like this be better for a package build host instead of 4+4 cores > with 3.x GHz ? In my experience, "it depends". I think that above a certain numb

Re: FreeBSD on AMD Epyc boards

2018-02-14 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > To have a bit of a work around for the Intel Meltdown bug (yes, no > Spectre), I wanted to try out some AMD based CPUs. So far so good using > a SuperMicro H11SSL-i. A decent server board using an Epyc CPU. All > the things you need and expect for a server grade MB On the plus side: 16+1