Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:08 -0800 From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duo core question Message-ID: <57d710000701171555w506dfc7dq874618a4353af2f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B0A50160-67AD-4286-9DF1-1131FC58E6AA@u.washington.edu> References: <f84c38580701161711w323647c2n3e9c72b604eed49@mail.gmail.com> <20070117142404.43699e39@localhost> <f84c38580701161935y2366534ao476051f65699fa1b@mail.gmail.com> <57d710000701171155v29201bc5s96dfb0584cd5143f@mail.gmail.com> <B0A50160-67AD-4286-9DF1-1131FC58E6AA@u.washington.edu>
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On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: > > > On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) > >> > >> so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really > >> "feel" it?? > >> > > > > i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be using > > the system. if you are running a farm of machines running > > multi-threaded app's then i'd say yes - multi-core systems are a > > benefit (as you get more core's to run threads on w/o generating as > > much heat and eating as much power as a second cpu socket). > > > > if you are running heavily multi-threaded desktop apps, i'd say yes - > > it may be helpful for similar reasons mentioned above. > > > > if you are using your desktop like %90 of unix people out there > > (web/mail and ssh'ing into servers) i'm not sure having two cores (let > > alone multiple CPU's) is worth the price. > > Assuming you're not operating some sort of high-volume web/mail apps :). > -Garrett sure, although i can't think of any multi-threaded MUA's or web browsers out there.... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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