Is this possible?

[rikona]

Hello Mark,

Monday, October 3, 2016, 8:02:22 AM, Mark wrote:

> Actually, the FX9590 8-core series is well faster than any Intel
> chipset and I've run Fedora 23/24 on it for quite a while now
> without a single issue. (Granted it isn't Ubuntu, but it /is/
> Linux.) 

What MB are you using? 32Gb mem? Chip set? Large disk/UEFI? These last
3 seem to be the source of many current problems.

> FWIW, I've not bothered with Intel chips for several years now and
> never had a single issue with them running any version of linux that
> I use regularly. Mostly RHEL/Fedora and Gentoo/Arch.

I've seen a couple of Arch sites that have been quite good and
informative. I'm not a computer guy, though, so a bit hesitant to go
that route...

> While I don't completely disagree with Liam's Intel comment, I find
> AMD's performance better than stock Intel setups more often than
> not. 

I've been using AMD for several years with little/no problems. Is my
parallel processing approach likely to be helpful, given how I use the
box? I'd appreciate your opinion...

> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:35 AM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

>> Hello Liam,
>>
>> Monday, October 3, 2016, 4:43:07 AM, Liam wrote:
>>
>> > On 3 October 2016 at 06:57, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> >> AMD 4or6 core processor [have a 6 core]
>>
>> > Why?
>>
>> > Apart from at the very low end, Intel is faster than AMD and has
>> > been since the Core 2 Duo range.
>>
>> My hope is to do things in parallel. I work with a fair amount of
>> data, and a large data run may take 12 hours. Sometimes I can split
>> that and run it as multiple processes. While that is running, I may
>> have multiple browsers, each with perhaps 50 or more tabs open. This
>> load makes my current box unusably slow, swap is maxed out, and
>> something very often crashes - I may lose several days of work. And
>> there's email, editing of docs, making diagrams, etc, etc. Perhaps
>> Intel can do one 12 hour job in 4 hours, but I still have lots going
>> on during that 4 hours.
>>
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