On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote: > > So I replaced a 4GB memory stick in my Thinkpad T420 with an 8GB one > > bringing the total amount of available ram to 12GB with maximum of > > 16GB.Even though Lenovo say that the laptop supports only 8 GB of ram total. > > > > As it stands now this 4 year old machine becomes a pretty cost-effective > > platform for virtualization: > > > > * Intel Core i5-2410M > > I just checked, and apparently that model does to all the vt-x stuff, > so yes good for VM handling, and even better, apparently with a bios > update it can do aes-ni which can be very handy too. Linux microcode > handling might also handle the job if no bios upgrade exists.
It's difficult to judge by specs or benchmarks alone. I have 8-core (AMD FX-8320) and 16GB (DDR3-1333), and it's fast when doing nothing, but it just chokes on load. Curiously, there is no lag with mouse under any condition. And, parallel kernel compile (make -j8) is in the ballpark. So, I don't know what's going on. All I can say is, I'm going with Intel on next machine. -- William --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
