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- Fun With Intel Xeon 5500 Nehalem and Linux cpuspeed(8). Part II.
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- Linux Thinks It’s a CPU, But What Is It Really – Part I. Mapping Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) Processor Threads to Linux OS CPUs.
- Oracle Database 11g with Intel Xeon 5570 TPC-C Result: Beware of the Absurdly Difficult NUMA Software Configuration Requirements!
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- Oracle on Virtual Machines. Going Fishing? Intel “Nehalem” Xeon Quad-Core with CSI Floats!
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hey found your blog after searching for Solaris + Nehalem. You got some great material here, will have to come back read very carefully!
Also, I am an Oracle on Solaris guy for the past 12 years, and I did a bit of Dynix on Sequent back in the 90s!
So I want to buy one of them new-fangled 2-socket Xeon X5570-based systems and it comes with 12 x 2GB DIMMs @ 1333Mhz each. is that the OPTIMAL memory config? Vendor tried to change my order to 1066Mhz 12x4GB DIMMs.
If 24GB will suffice for your needs I’d certainly rather choose 12x 1333MHz sticks. For Oracle, however, the difference between the 1066 and 1333 parts is not really all the significant. That is, of course, only my assessment.
Dynix… you are aging yourself 🙂
Thanks for stopping by.