AMD vs Intel memory managemement
Derek Trotter
expat.arizonan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 15:49:58 MST 2013
I read somewhere that a modern scientific calculator is more powerful
than the computers the astronauts in the Apollo program used in the
craft they were riding in to the moon.
On 06/13/2013 02:33 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> At 08:16 AM 6/13/2013, Eric Cope wrote:
>> what year was that?
>
> 1968 or so
>
>
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Lyle Tuttle <l.tuttle at cox.net
>> <mailto:l.tuttle at cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>> In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission
>> designing, building and maintaining computer controlled
>> experiments using radiation from and located on the face of the
>> reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" <G> ran ALL experiments
>> (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote locations)
>> in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and
>> people came from all over the world to see what we were
>> doing....now a watch has more memory.....
>>
>> Time flies, and the only constant is change......  Â
>>
>> At 10:26 PM 6/12/2013, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>> Anyone remember the old days when we thought 64k RAM and a
>>> 5MB hard drive was a fast machine?
>>>
>>> On 06/12/2013 06:12 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>>> Yes - I am not saying my entire farm has that much ram.
>>>> You can get away with much, much less, but I have
>>>> servers that go that high.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:49 PM, keith smith
>>>> <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com <mailto:klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Did I read that right you have 768GB of RAM?
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------
>>>> Keith Smith
>>>> --- On Wed, 6/12/13, Bryan O'Neal
>>>> <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>>> <mailto:Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Bryan O'Neal
>>>> <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>>> <mailto:Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement
>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
>>>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>>> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 5:45 PM
>>>>
>>>> This is kinda new to me - Just so I am clear -
>>>> unganged systems would perform better if I have
>>>> say - a caching system with limited threads
>>>> each pined to a specific core (we do this for
>>>> processor cache anyway) while ganged systems
>>>> would perform better it I was spinning up a new
>>>> thread for each request and had a large amount
>>>> (say 768GB) of ram running something like
>>>> PostgreSQL where threads are being fired up and
>>>> down many thousands of times a second but the
>>>> data they seek is mostly in main memory.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Stephen
>>>> <cryptworks at gmail.com
>>>> <http://mc/compose?to=cryptworks@gmail.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On-board bios usually will not allocate
>>>> that much however. And by usually will not
>>>> I mean I have never sen it do so, even in
>>>> the days of ghetto ram thieving by graphics
>>>> chip-sets.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Eric
>>>> Shubert <ejs at shubes.net
>>>> <http://mc/compose?to=ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/03/2013 01:46 PM, Nathan England
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But why does CentOS not register
>>>> all of my memory? Why less than 3/4
>>>> of it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps the bios has allocated a chunk
>>>> of it to onboard video?
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