Fedora Core 5 + Athlon 64 + Nvidia Motherboard

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been thinking of setting up a new development system with the
> following components:
> - MSI motherboard with integrated LAN, audio and video and using Nvidia
> chipset (won't be using the LAN part because I'll be using a NetGear
> wireless card instead)
> - AMD Athlon 64
> - Fedora Core 5 (64-bit)
> - IBM Java 5 SDK (64-bit)
>
> Here's what I will be running on it:
> - Apache
> - Postfix (for learning purposes only)
> - A lot of Java stuff, like Tomcat, Apache Derby,etc.
>
> What I need to know is:
>
> 1. How well does 64-bit Fedora run on AMD64? I'm sure there are some
> list members here who have already tried it, and I'd like to know if
> there are any bugs I should be aware of.

Fairly well, or no worse than any of the other distros.

> 2. Does a 64-bit CPU actually make any difference in performance? I know
> that I should probably expect some quirks when I'm running Java stuff. I
> don't think it affects web server performance at all, but I'm hoping
> that it may speed up Tomcat and Java performance.

>From what I've read, java performance is *worse* in 64bit environments.
Beyond that, 64bit is only beneficial if your apps can both take advantage
of the extra address space, and need it.

Specifically which MSI board are you considering?


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