Is this possible?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting rikona <rikona at sonic.net>:

> Hello Dave,
>
> Monday, October 3, 2016, 11:57:28 AM, Dave wrote:
>
>> Quoting rikona <rikona at sonic.net>:
>
>>> Hello Dave,
>>>
>>> Monday, October 3, 2016, 9:13:33 AM, Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>> On 3 October 2016 at 06:57, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>> AMD 4or6 core processor [have a 6 core]
>>>>>
>>>>> Why?
>>>>>
>>>>> Apart from at the very low end, Intel is faster than AMD and has been
>>>>> since the Core 2 Duo range.
>>>
>>>> Top on my AMD box shows 92% idle, can Intel wait faster?
>>>
>>> You bring up an interesting point. My large data runs, with many disk
>>> accesses, might actually be IO bound, so processor speed may not be
>>> the most important factor.
>>>
>>> If I put the data on SSDs, though, will that very expensive storage
>>> have a short life because of the VERY intensive data access required?
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>  rikona
>
>> I think you'd need to profile your usage. When you are running your
>> i/o bound processes, what does top show? or sar? iotop?
>
> Just ran a small test on my old box - very interesting result.
> Definitely IO bound. iotop gives me 4-6 M/s, sometimes 99.99%. CPU
> mostly around 20-30%, with some jumps to 70-80% or so. 8G mem full.
> Swap about half full [but lots of pgms running]. 2 cores, one core
> often gets very near/at max, when CPU is high, but usually sits at
> about 60-70% visually [using htop].
>
> I didn't think of this until your note, but looks important. Thanks!

ok so the swapping says you're running out of RAM so add RAM and see.

d

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