[ale] Performance

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:37, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I've got an AMD 1.2GHZ machine and I'm looking to upgrade it to get
> better performance.  The main problem I have is with compiling our
> software.  It is just taking too long and I want to make the process
> faster.
> 
> Disk Performance:
> 
> [root at cfowler cfowler]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
> 
> /dev/hdb:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.37 seconds = 46.72 MB/sec
> 
> Will getting at AMD 2400+ make a huge difference in compile times?
> Obviously when compiling software some I/O is invloved on the disks.

Yes. Compiles are very CPU intensive. Dual CPU systems are very nice for
heavy compilation projects. I lost a CPU in a dual box. The kernel
compile time doubled (almost. there is small bit of overhead to use -j 2
on make) after the death of cpu #2.
> 
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