On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:47:05 +0100, Gudmund Areskoug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Krsnendu Dasa wrote: >> Why are Opteron's recommended? On Anandtech, Tom's Hardware etc they all >> say >> that the new Xeon Dual Core beats the Opteron hands down. > > beats it under what circumstances? AFAIR, Opterons suitability for LTSP > lies largely in how it handles multitasking/multithreading, so it might > be slower on a certain kind of benchmark while remaining on top when it > has to serve multiple users running many apps simultaneously. > > Or is the Xeon improved/better in that respect too? > > BR, > Gudmund > I would have thought that for LTSP, we'd want as many processors as possible, without any one processor being too slow. My reasoning is that more threads means more single threaded apps can be running without impinging on other apps, whilst you can still run big apps quickly. For example I recently had the choice of a quad pIII 750, or a dual Xeon 1.4. I went for the dual, as there would be more power for single apps on that set up, so heavy stuff like open office would run faster, rather than just running on one of the PIIIs. I am not sure if my conclusion are correct, and would love some concrete varification. I wonder how different numbers of concurrent users would affect this too. Would I have been better of with the quad for a larger number of users? -- From Ben Green ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
