[linux-audio-user] AMD64 with Linux audio applications?

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki rzewnickie at rfa.org
Tue Mar 22 12:18:54 EST 2005


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:37:21AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:51:36 +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> > Our Dual-Opteron machine is soo damn fast I couldnt believe
> > it at first.  We're having internal jokes that AMD is a problem
> > for sysadmins, since one doesn't even find the time to get a coffee
> > anymore :-)..  OTOH, I am probably biased since I only worked with
> > Opteron so far which as I understand it performs quite a bit better
> > than its smaller brothers...
> Damn. I was hoping the Athlon would be as fast as the opteron :( You're
> right, the opteron is scary-fast for the price.

to get an idea how fast this type of scary-fast is in some sort of units 
... how long does a kernel compile take?
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