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

[Greg]

Good question.  I am thinking that I cannot take advantage of any parallel
processing - that my IDE can only do it in serial manner, else my dual
Opteron should be smoking the laptop (3.6 GHZ / 2 GB of RAM).  However it is
another avenue that I haven't thought about but I can look into it.

Thanks for the tip !

Greg 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Dow
To: ale at ale.org
Hurst
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] A faster Java box - any tips ??

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
>
>- apologies to any that are on the ajug-members list as well as this one.
>
>  

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