[bf1942] AMD FPO

[Jon Wolberg]

I agree with you on the SMP build Troy, however most of our BF boxes are
dual CPUs, as we can run multiple BF servers per box ( 5 in the highest
case ) so it wouldnt be too useless here.

I've always been a fan of Intel, just the fact alone that they are easier to
maintain ( had two dual amd's fail on us and not a single xeon so far ) says
it all for me.  I just wanted to try something different, see how it went as
far as the Linux BF server went versus Windows.

Jon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Troy Chinnery" <t_chinnery at iprimus.com.au>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] AMD FPO


> An SMP build would be useless if the server is single-threaded however,
and
> most servers are (single threaded).
>
> Personally, I would go with the P4 (I'm not an Intel zealot either). In my
> (albiet limited) experience with running game servers, I find the P4s to
be
> easier to maintain. And due to HTT you can run an SMP kernel too iirc.
>
> Jon Wolberg wrote:
> > Troy-
> >
> >     Thanks for the great info.  It would be very  nice to have a SMP
build
> > for the server since the windows one isnt smp-aware, but that would mean
a
> > lot more work for Andreas, so I dont think it'll happen.  I was just
trying
> > to get an idea of what HW to use for our linux testbed, a P4 3.0C or a
> > AthlonXP 3000.
> >
> > Jon
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Troy Chinnery" <t_chinnery at iprimus.com.au>
> > To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: [bf1942] AMD FPO
> >
> >
> >
> >>Jon, I'm pretty sure than an SSE2 optimised build running on a P4 would
> >
> > easily
> >
> >>beat an SSE optimised build running on an Athlon-XP. Needless to say
> >
> > however,
> >
> >>I doubt very much they will release several different builds. I think
the
> >
> > best
> >
> >>we could hope for would be maybe an i686 build in addition to the
standard
> >>i386 build. (Maybe a build for SMP too? How many threads does the server
> >>actually have? Only 1?)
> >>
> >>Though I do agree heartily that it would be nice to have an Athlon-XP
> >
> > build as
> >
> >>well as a P4 build. This probably wouldn't annoy anyone because 99% of
> >
> > people
> >
> >>wouldn't run this kind of server on a lesser CPU. But there are many
> >>variations of these chips also.
> >>
> >>Troy.
> >>
> >>Jon Wolberg wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hey All-
> >>>
> >>>    I dont know if this has been asked/answered before, but is the
> >>>linuxded optomized to take advantage of the higher FPO output of AMD
> >>>chips over Intel?  Has anyone done any testing at all on AMD vs. Intel
> >>>with the linuxded?
> >>>
> >>>Jon
> >>
> >
> >
>