Re: how to compare X Ghz processor to Y Ghz processor?

ray wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:48:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

ray wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:31:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

ray wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:27:23 -0700, Bennett Haselton wrote:

If I'm comparing dedicated Linux hosting offers, is there a rule of
thumb to tell which of two processors is going to be the faster,
better choice? (Assuming I'm just hosting a busy Web server.)

One hosting company suggested I "upgrade" from a machine with an
Intel Celeron 2.8 Ghz to a machine with an Intel Celeron 430 1.8
Ghz. At first I wondered why the supposedly better one would have a
smaller Ghz number. But I know that an X Ghz processor is not
necessarily faster than a Y Ghz processor just because X > Y. But
in that case, is there a rule for determining which is better? A
published list that lists all processors in order by their speed
(assuming a fixed task like running a busy Web server)?

Bennett
The "faster one" is likely to be the one running on a chipset which
offers faster disc access.
not neceessarily. Depends what slows you down.

a 1.8Ghz 64 bit chip with good cache will out compute a faster 32 bit
one with less cache..if you are compute bound.

This machine certainly is..a 450MHz Power PC is very slow...:-)

Sometimes its ram you are short of..if yo regularly rn a zillion
processes on a server, or manipulate very large graphic objects or
movies..

Disk access only really affects program or data loading, unless you
are running a huge database with many users.
A web server is going to need fast disk access or else one hell of a
large cache. CPUs are orders of magnitude faster than disk access.

Its all so easy. Just run top and see.

whether all the processes are waiting for disk IO, or whether the CPU
factor is high, or whether the thing is swapping like Trixie.

Who is "Trixie"?

Trixies are American social-climbing white women, usually urban, who date men exclusively to advance their social status and exhibit no loyalty or fidelity whatsoever.

I don't think it's a particularly common term, but maybe I just don't know the right (?) women. I have no idea where/how the term was coined. I tend to associate the name with Speed Racer's helicopter-flying girlfriend (originally named Michiko) from the 60s, who was the exact opposite of the modern slang. (Linux and anime, they go together, desho, desho?)
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