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Dual Xeon L5520 Vs E3 - 1270/1230 V2 ?
darknessends
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Hey guys,
Need to choose between 2 options. What do u prefer for a good vps node?
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Need a little bit more info to answer that question. Primarily RAM and Disks
With all things being equal the Dual L5520 will be faster with multi threaded / parallel workloads. E3-1240V2 will be faster in single threaded applications.
If you want to offer high RAM like the 2 GB ones,you can get one Dual Xeon L5520
How much RAM do you want to have in that node?
dunno, u have 2 choice the duals at 72 GB and the E3s with 32.
v2 is really fast CPU go for it.
L5520 will outperform in a virtualized environment which is what you need ourdays.
interesting, i get for hosting first the E1230v2 and was really fast, but i cancel it, because support.
so i get on my original dc, a L5520, and works good, but seems to be faster the e1230
with the 32gb ram,
maybe the raid, make the difference, using raid10 on both servers, but one was 4x1Tb and the L5520 are 4x3TB.
im doing the test, but is so slow, im on 1Gpbs
root@xela [~]# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency : 1600.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 32099 MB
Total amount of swap : 4095 MB
System uptime : 7 days, 21:59,
Download speed from CacheFly: 24.7MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 6.36MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 71.8MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP:
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 3.89MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 8.74MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.34MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 24.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 28.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 26.7MB/s
I/O speed : 117 MB/s
./ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=1 time=9.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=2 time=14.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=3 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=4 time=17.9 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=5 time=14.6 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=6 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=7 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=8 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=9 time=0.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=10 time=0.4 ms
--- . (ext4 /dev/sda3) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9059.9 ms, 172 iops, 0.7 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/5.8/17.9/6.9 ms
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I'm undecided over E3-1230 v2, or E3-1270 or 16 core AMD.
The E3-1270v2 is quite nice. We run it and are very happy with the configuration. Don't use AMD, customers are happier if you say it's on Xeon.
]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasyn
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 15.9263 s, 67.4 MB/s
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@Dedicados
Who is that server with, that is not one of our L5520's
no, i dont say is with you, i just share the info is on FDC
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't really see a logic behind this. May I know why this is so? I had assumed that AMD would be respected in regards to their 12+core Opterons???
I am not going by personal opinions here. I had FOUR people complain when we used AMD Opteron CPUs at some point. So we use only Intel Xeon now.
They were not complaining about performance. They simply "preferred Intel CPUs"
How about listing the AMD model @shovenose? You can't make such a broad generalization if the two models aren't equivalent in benchmarks.
We had a node with Dual Opteron 2216 and a node with Quad Opteron 8220.
@shovenose Those are over 5 year old Opterons....
Also, I'm sure our customers wouldn't mind if we gave each VPS it's own dedicated CPU core by using four of those 16 core piledriver Opterons. :P