[ale] A faster Java box - any tips ??

[Dow Hurst]

Greg,
If your able to do a distributed compile then do that by all means.  Can 
you setup a backend compile farm of a few dedicated boxes?  It is 
possible that Cluster Knoppix could solve your problem without your 
buying a new system.  Distcc is a distributed compile fronted for gcc.  
What I don't know is if you can do the Java thing that way.
Dow


Greg wrote:
>I am looking for any tips/comments/advice on buying a fast machine to do
>J2EE on.  I am developing in Eclipse and working on large web applications
>and it seems that my current box is pretty slow.  I am using the one box to
>run my database, run whichever AS/Servlets container I need (JBoss, Resin,
>or plain old Tomcat), and I try to only recompile whatever has changed and
>not the whole thing.  I started out with all of my web apps in the same
>workspace but since it slowed it down I now only load one at a time and pull
>up any other pages in another app individually if I need to refer to them. 
>
>I have tried developing on a dual 64-bit Opteron (2.0 GHz) with 2 GB of
>memory and on a 3.6 GHz HP laptop with 1 GB of memory and the laptop seems
>way faster than the dual box.  I have been told that the most important
>thing is clock speed and that using 2 processors is irrelevant.  Is this
>correct ?  Is AMD's FX line of processors (2.8 GHz) faster than Intel's P4
>(I think around 3.74 GHz) ?  Does RAM matter past 1 GB ??  Any opinions of
>using a SCSI HD/PCI card vs. a SATA HD through the motherboard ?
>
>I have tried to Google for an answer to this but have found nothing of
>substance.  My knowledge of hardware with regards to processors and Java is
>sadly lacking.
>
>I would appreciate any tips / advice / comments.  Thanks,
>
>Greg
>
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