Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E On Linux

[kenjo]

Strange valus for amd CPU

Why is the AMD fx9590 slower than the FX-8350 on nearly every test. Since the 9590 has a faster clock than 8350 but othervise its identical I would expect that it would be faster.

[dungeon]

Why is the AMD fx9590 slower than the FX-8350 on nearly every test. Since the 9590 has a faster clock than 8350 but othervise its identical I would expect that it would be faster.

OMK

[Sdar]

Why is the AMD fx9590 slower than the FX-8350 on nearly every test. Since the 9590 has a faster clock than 8350 but othervise its identical I would expect that it would be faster.

Vrms gets too hot and start throttling, 220w it's too much for normal motherboards.

[curaga]

Yeah, well, the more the merrier. I guess, anyone spending $300 on a mobo plus a grand on the CPU is probably willing to max out the RAM, so a RAM disk would not be out of the question. What would be the max capacity? 32x4 GB?

A full kernel compile should fit in < 3 GB, so nothing extravagant necessary.

[mendieta]

A full kernel compile should fit in < 3 GB, so nothing extravagant necessary.

My kernel tree is more like 11gb after compilation, but anyways I was also day-dreaming half-drooling of having this beast CPU with a large enough RAMDISK to basically have your development env on RAM

http://www.observium.org/wiki/Persistent_RAM_disk_RRD_storage

I am pretty sure this would make the whole 'compile cycle' a non-issue, when you can compile the kernel, perhaps in what, 5s, without disk overhead?

[schmidtbag]

Yeah, well, the more the merrier. I guess, anyone spending $300 on a mobo plus a grand on the CPU is probably willing to max out the RAM, so a RAM disk would not be out of the question. What would be the max capacity? 32x4 GB?

http://wccftech.com/samsung-launch-d...memory-sticks/

I heard the limit was 64GB - someone mentioned that to me because they thought the limitation was stupid (which, it is).

[curaga]

My kernel tree is more like 11gb after compilation, but anyways I was also day-dreaming half-drooling of having this beast CPU with a large enough RAMDISK to basically have your development env on RAM

How do you get it that big? Do you have every DEBUG_ option enabled?

I've done distro config builds in a 4gb ramdisk without running out of space, but that wasn't with DEBUG options.

[mendieta]

How do you get it that big? Do you have every DEBUG_ option enabled?

I've done distro config builds in a 4gb ramdisk without running out of space, but that wasn't with DEBUG options.

You are absolutely right, I just checked and my uncleaned build trees are around 2gb. I used to have one of the menuconfig options ON on the Debug section, and that was not only taking forever, but also using a lot of disk, and finally creating a huge debug .deb file.

I basically wrote a simple script to compile a vanilla kernel and create .deb's, based on info from the ubuntu wiki. The beauties of having a fully supported CPU (Intel Haswell). I can always run the latest kernel

#!/bin/bash

export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2"
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"

# uncomment this to copy Ubuntu's .config -- only if needed
# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config

yes '' | make oldconfig

# uncoment for a full build
# make clean

make -j 8 deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-mendieta

[cutterjohn]

Yeah, well, the more the merrier. I guess, anyone spending $300 on a mobo plus a grand on the CPU is probably willing to max out the RAM, so a RAM disk would not be out of the question. What would be the max capacity? 32x4 GB?

http://wccftech.com/samsung-launch-d...memory-sticks/

They're c. $800 if you're lucky enough to have a local ucenter...

Considering that I paid c. $500 for a 3930k a few years, it's tempting for the 5960 barring the self destructing mobos...