[lug] Atom Based Computers

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 05:35 -0600, Stephen Queen wrote:

> So how would I determine which cpu/main board would be most
> appropriate for my application? More importantly, how would I
> determine in advance, which cpu resources my application is going to
> consume or even tax? Off the top of my head, I would think that the
> main resource my application would need is for I/O on the network. I
> could be fooling myself though. There is a lot of data coming in small
> bursts of around 1 to 1.5 Kbytes a second. I tried looking at it with
> a profiler at one time, but it seemed that the profiler actually used
> as much resources as my app., so it just muddied the water. 
> _

That's too big a question to ask without knowing more about your
application.

What can you tell us about it?  What does it do? What is it written in?
What are its requirements: does it run in 256M of RAM or does it require
2G to run, etc?

These factors help guide hardware choices.  A small app written in C
that runs in 128M of memory, for example, may be able to run
satisfactorily on an Atom processor with no problems.  A similar app
that works with a pool of 1G-2G of memory might benefit greatly from a
cpu with a large amount of L2/L3 cache instead..

So, details..

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