[clug] Which to go for?

[Ishwor Gurung]

2010/1/16 Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com>:
[...]
> On the kernel note, I just got bored and did this (on an i7 920, 12GB
> RAM, 30GB OCZ vertex system "disk" machine running karmic koala
> 2.6.31-17-generic).
>
>  # cd /tmp
>
>  # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.32.3.tar.gz
>
>  # tar zxvf linux-2.6.32.3.tar.gz
>
>  # cd linux-2.6.32.3/
>
>  # cp /boot/config-2.6.31-17-generic .config
>
>  # time make -j6
>   <...>
>  IHEX    firmware/yam/9600.bin
>
>   real 11m15.044s
>   user 55m46.180s
>   sys  5m47.400s
>
> Note the 'make -j6', an i7 with HT isn't really 8 cores as we all know
> and I find 6 concurrent jobs to be about the sweet spot. 7 is
> sometimes a frazzle faster but 8 is nearly always slower if all
> "cores" are running at 100%.

That's neat Andrew.

I am seriously considering i7 now.

Thanks everybody; Goodnight! It's been a pleasure knowing what's
cranking those codes underneath for you folks ;)
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Regards
Ishwor Gurung
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