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Thanks for the tip !

Greg 

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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:23 PM
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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:
&gt;I am looking for any tips/comments/advice on buying a fast machine to 
&gt;do J2EE on.  I am developing in Eclipse and working on large web 
&gt;applications and it seems that my current box is pretty slow.  I am 
&gt;using the one box to run my database, run whichever AS/Servlets 
&gt;container I need (JBoss, Resin, or plain old Tomcat), and I try to only 
&gt;recompile whatever has changed and not the whole thing.  I started out 
&gt;with all of my web apps in the same workspace but since it slowed it 
&gt;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.
&gt;
&gt;I have tried developing on a dual 64-bit Opteron (2.0 GHz) with 2 GB of 
&gt;memory and on a 3.6 GHz HP laptop with 1 GB of memory and the laptop 
&gt;seems way faster than the dual box.  I have been told that the most 
&gt;important thing is clock speed and that using 2 processors is 
&gt;irrelevant.  Is this correct ?  Is AMD's FX line of processors (2.8 
&gt;GHz) faster than Intel's P4 (I think around 3.74 GHz) ?  Does RAM 
&gt;matter past 1 GB ??  Any opinions of using a SCSI HD/PCI card vs. a SATA HD
through the motherboard ?
&gt;
&gt;I have tried to Google for an answer to this but have found nothing of 
&gt;substance.  My knowledge of hardware with regards to processors and 
&gt;Java is sadly lacking.
&gt;
&gt;I would appreciate any tips / advice / comments.  Thanks,
&gt;
&gt;Greg
&gt;
&gt;- apologies to any that are on the ajug-members list as well as this one.
&gt;
&gt;  

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