On 18/05/2007, at 6:08 PM, David Guest wrote:
Which kind of leaves in a quandry.
I am trying to spec up a Xen box. It will run two debian guests and
three Windows guests. MSSQL will be the database server on Windows
and MySQL on linux. The MSSQL will be the machine working the
hardest, although I will need at least a gig of RAM for one of the
linux vboxen.
Horst, what would you recommend in terms of CPUs (2 or 4?),
hyperthreading (turned off?), RAM (8 gig?), 32 or 64 bit for this
configuration. Anything else I should consider?
If money is no object, 4 cpu, then you can try switching off 1 or 2
or 3 for speed. Since you mention so many processes, you probably
need all four. 8 because it is an inscrutable Chinese favourite
number. 64 bit if you plan to play heaps of computer chess as that is
a natural fit for computer representation of a chessboard. Someone
reported in my smalltalk list that In some multicore scenarios a
memory intensive process actually speeds up as you throw another
process at the multicore. The bottleneck with memory intensive
processes in multicore is the TLB or Translation Lookaside Buffer
which is the cache that contains fragments of the page table, for
speeding up virtual memory address translation to physical addresses .
Kuangie
More speed, less haze, same meaning as English with Docle context
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