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well it's half-baked 64-bit system ;-P
well it's half-baked 64-bit system ;-P
Posted Sep 13, 2006 5:43 UTC (Wed) by gvy (guest, #11981)In reply to: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com) by richo123
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)
> The difference in responsiveness of the gnome desktop is remarkable
It's just plain horrible, considering the bogomips. Well, even if xeons suck on context switches, the more so as the clock gets higher since something was real time-based there... (intel em64t chipsets suck too, try getting proper i/o with e.g. 3ware 9xxx and 4+Gb RAM, you'll get (sw)iotlb surprize -- which can result in filesystem corruption; this is done in hardware in AMD64 CPUs and seemingly isn't done yet in intel *server* chipsets)
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well it's half-baked 64-bit system ;-P
Posted Sep 13, 2006 12:45 UTC (Wed) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link]
The bogomips between an intel x86 3.4Ghz regular processor and the x86_64 xeon em64t processors (cache sizes the same) are actually identical (6800). The difference in responsiveness of gnome between the two is stark. Published benchmarks (Tom's Hardware) show the em64t and amd64 to have advantages in different areas.