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

Jeremiah Benham jjbenham at chicagoguitar.com
Tue Mar 22 12:53:40 EST 2005


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> 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?


Unfortunately that is relative the amount of modules compiled into the
kernel. 

Jeremaih


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