After installing the new Athlon X2 4600+ processor in Rio, I have to say I’m very impressed with the performance gains. Not only was I able to re-install Kubuntu<\/a> server and get all the necessary packages installed again quickly, but the overall responsiveness of the machine is greatly improved while multitasking. This is especially noticeable with running 2 virtual servers using VMware Server<\/a>.<\/p>\n So what about the benchmarks? I decided to start with the svnmark that Luis introduced on his blog<\/a>, and downloaded Subversion 1.3.0 (1.3.2 is available, but the last benchmarks I did previously used 1.3.0). After a couple of runs, I found make -j4 to be the quickest. Here are the numbers:<\/p>\n
| Mac Pro Quad 3Ghz:<\/b><\/td>\n | 0:53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dual Core Athlon 64 2.4Ghz:<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n | 1:27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Quad 2.5Ghz G5:<\/b><\/td>\n | 1:39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MacBook Pro Dual 1.83Ghz:<\/b><\/td>\n | 2:11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dual 2.5Ghz G5:<\/b><\/td>\n | 2:35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Single Core Athlon 64 2Ghz (same server before upgrade):<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n | 2:59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n After running this test and seeing the Athlon X2 compile faster than even a Quad G5, I’m pretty happy. Granted, the OS is Linux and not Mac OS X, but I doubt Linux would be that much more efficient when compiling software using gcc.<\/p>\n So how does it stack up with the forecast processing I need the server to do? Well in this case, I don’t have any solid benchmarks, I’m just running off memory here. The old processor was able to generate and serve a forecast in 0.4 seconds, where the new one can do the same request just under 0.3 seconds–a pretty solid 25% performance gain. This is all sequential code, so this doesn’t take into account the availability of a second processor. The forecast update is also a lot quicker, and with a second core the machine should still be able to handle connections from Seasonality to generate forecasts while updating the forecast database back-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After installing the new Athlon X2 4600+ processor in Rio, I have to say I’m very impressed with the performance gains. Not only was I able to re-install Kubuntu server and get all the necessary packages installed again quickly, but the overall responsiveness of the machine is greatly improved while multitasking. This is especially noticeable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaucho-software","category-seasonality","category-sys-admin","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |