Myself and Bill were having a discussion about trying this.
Does anyone here have a Linux quad SMP machine that is not a production machine and would want to do a little test for us?
Since we know the SMP client does not scale 100% with twice as many cores (dual to quad) we were wondering if there would be a PPD difference with running a Linux VM on top of another Linux install. Setup the SMP client on the host OS as normal and then setup the SMP client under the VM Linux install.
I know there is a performance hit by doing so, but we were wondering if the performance hit is more or less than the performance hit with the bad scaling of dual to quad cores.
If someone here has a box that would be ideal for this test, I would appreciate if you would volunteer. If you have no experience with VMware under Linux I could probably help you a bit, as I did that install on two SUSE 10.2 machines this weekend and have them running just fine.
I only ask because I only have a dual core. This wouldn't actually be necessary if someone wants to donate a Q6600 G0 to me. At that point I would do all the testing myself. Of course, for my time and effort spent in doing it, I would naturally expect to keep the quad core for my own uses. Although I guess I could trade my E6400 for it.
Seriously, I would like to know if someone would be interested in helping out on this project.
Does anyone here have a Linux quad SMP machine that is not a production machine and would want to do a little test for us?
Since we know the SMP client does not scale 100% with twice as many cores (dual to quad) we were wondering if there would be a PPD difference with running a Linux VM on top of another Linux install. Setup the SMP client on the host OS as normal and then setup the SMP client under the VM Linux install.
I know there is a performance hit by doing so, but we were wondering if the performance hit is more or less than the performance hit with the bad scaling of dual to quad cores.
If someone here has a box that would be ideal for this test, I would appreciate if you would volunteer. If you have no experience with VMware under Linux I could probably help you a bit, as I did that install on two SUSE 10.2 machines this weekend and have them running just fine.
I only ask because I only have a dual core. This wouldn't actually be necessary if someone wants to donate a Q6600 G0 to me. At that point I would do all the testing myself. Of course, for my time and effort spent in doing it, I would naturally expect to keep the quad core for my own uses. Although I guess I could trade my E6400 for it.
Seriously, I would like to know if someone would be interested in helping out on this project.