[cod] Anyone running a good COD or UO with 1.5x???

[Mark J. DeFilippis]

I believe he mentioned this Steve.  Not load balancing, but scheduling as 
you point out.
The scheduler does not nail the process to a particular CPU, as is the case
with other versions of Linux.  Support certainly must be there on the processor
however for SMP.

Lets not forget about things such as tag-cache on chip, pre-fetch,
and the like. Little good if your tag cache is on processor 0, and the 
process is
scheduled back on cpu 1. But then again, I believe this is built in to the
Hypertransports, based on some architecture readings
a while back. (memory is 43 y/o now... but I think is correct).

Recently my ES 3.0 kernel was updated with the preliminary support for
the upcoming 2.6 kernel which offers this support. I am preying this
helps.

(BTW, best I could find stock is 248's in a dual AMD package
at $299/mo w/ 2GB ram hosted.  The co-lo option is not reasonable
for me.  If I procure the Tyan board, and Processor/memory,
the bandwidth is cost prohibitive. I end up paying more for
the Bandwidth than I do now for the Dual P4 with the bandwidth.
(Looking at the planet, EV1, ServerBeach, Verio, and the sub-slime ;-)
But I am so curious anyway, I just ordered a 2x248 and tyan MB from
newegg.com for my server rack.  (It is nice to be santa to yourself
first. ;-) )   Ironically ServerMatrix does not seem to offer Fedura
in their offerings. It may be tough to get them to support it operationally...

Now question is Jay, are you talking Fedura Core 1 or Core 2???

Thanks for the help. And Thanks for the info Steve. I also did not find any 
448's,
nor 848's, but I could be looking at the wrong places for the 848's...

Happy Holidays. And thanks for the help guys.

Mark


At 02:25 PM 12/24/2004, you wrote:
>In essence the Opteron scales better due to fact it has dedicated
>CPU <=> CPU interconnects where as the P4 doesn't. Nothing more
>nothing less there ( to my knowledge ). There is no automatic CPU
>load balancing on the CPU or MB its all down to the OS.
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