Weird. My 2133 is running at 1.2 Ghz and has an 800Mhz (at best) memory speed. My experience with Lift builds on machines with a lot of memory is that there's almost no disk access... everything is cached.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ubuntu 8.10 x64. Java is > > java version "1.6.0_12" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_12-b04) > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.2-b01, mixed mode) > > Here's AMD's rundown of the difference between the CPUs: > > http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUSideBySide.aspx?id=522&id=59 > > Note that I'm still using the original AM2 motherboard with the same > DDR2-800 memory. The fact that it's AM2 means that the Phenom is downgrading > its HyperTransport to the same speed as the Athlon X2 for bus access. > > I suppose I could benchmark it to see how it performs for other tasks. I'm > not sure how much an SSD would help. I'll run a build and monitor iostat to > see how much data transfer goes to/from the HDDs, but my machine typically > runs a file cache of about 800-900MB of memory (6GB total), so I would > suspect that most of what maven needs gets sucked into the cache. > > Derek > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:38 AM, David Pollak < > feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Derek, >> What OS are you running? The old numbers are worse than my HP 2133 >> Netbook which clocks in at 15 minutes for a full Lift build. >> >> Thanks, >> >> David >> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> I just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone else is considering >>> new hardware. I had an Athlon X2 4200+ powering my dev box (6GB of ram, 2 x >>> RAID 1 SATA drives) and average build time for a "mvn clean install" for the >>> entire liftweb project was roughly 17 minutes and 45 seconds. I just >>> upgraded to a Phenom X3 720 (no change in any other hardware) and my build >>> times are now about 7 minutes! I'm guessing that the L3 cache on the Phenom >>> is a huge part of that, but I'm sure that the increased clock and newer core >>> are helping a bit. >>> >>> Derek >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >> Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >> Git some: http://github.com/dpp >> >> >> > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
