wine on Intel Xeon processor

[Segin]

Ananth M wrote:

> Hi
>     Thank you
>     Our processor is a 64 bit processor.
>     I need to check for the Dual Core or not ?
>  
>     BTW, if possible , can you please send the URL for the other 
> thread that gives the information about the slower performance in Dual 
> Core machine
>  
>      Right now, I have RHEL 4.0 in all Xeon processors. I need to 
> install Windows OS on it , to verify for any issues with RHEL with 
> wine on Xeon processor. I will try to that in this weekend
>  
> Thank you  
> Regards
> Ajay
>
>  
> On 2/10/06, *Coleman Kane* <ckane at intellitree.com 
> <mailto:ckane at intellitree.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 10:51 -0600, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin
>     Navea) wrote:
>     > Hi, sorry I didnt reply all so it would go to the wine list.
>     >
>     > Is your Xeon a dual core, or possibly even 64-bit?  I doubt that
>     64-bit
>     > compared to 32-bit would make a difference, but if the Xeon is a
>     dc, it
>     > might, as I recall another thread here saying that they were having
>     > problems with a dual core system being slower.
>     >
>     > The only other thing I can think of (of course I'm not that far
>     along
>     > with my programming skill, and I doubt it will make much difference
>     > anyway) is what kind of machine the application and the dll were
>     > compiled on.  If you have the source for either of those, and have
>     > access to a xeon that is running windows (2003 server?) and can
>     compile,
>     > i'd suggest trying that, otherwise, I have no clue.
>     >
>     > HTH
>     >
>     > Tom
>     >
>
>     If memory serves me right, many of the dual-core intel chips share
>     some
>     on-chip components (such as the total cache). You'd get all of the
>     cache
>     lines allocated to one chip in UP, and divided among the cores in SMP.
>     There are probably other resources on the chip for which this is the
>     case... perhaps that is a source of your slowness?
>
>     --
>     coleman kane
>
>     > Ananth M wrote:
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > On 2/10/06, *Ananth M* <mekaananth at gmail.com
>     <mailto:mekaananth at gmail.com>
>     > > <mailto:mekaananth at gmail.com <mailto:mekaananth at gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > >     The wine source code was compiled in the Xeon processor
>     > >
>     > >     We had'nt recompiled the kernel with Xeon Processor , we
>     are using
>     > >     the same that is coming with RHEL 4.0
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >       Now I compiled the kernel again and used the new kernel
>     Image.
>     > > Still I am getting the same timings
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >     On 2/9/06, *Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)* <
>     > >     speeddymon at gmail.com <mailto:speeddymon at gmail.com>
>     <mailto:speeddymon at gmail.com <mailto:speeddymon at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > >         Are the wine binaries on the Xeon server precompiled
>     (even
>     > >         copied from
>     > >         the P4 machine), or are they compiled on the Xeon
>     server itself?
>     > >
>     > >         Also, has the kernel been recompiled with explicit
>     support for
>     > >         the Xeon,
>     > >         or is it the stock kernel that comes with RHEL 4?
>     > >
>     > >         Tom
>     > >
>     > >         Ananth M wrote:
>     > >         > Hi All
>     > >         >
>     > >         >               I have a windows application that calls a
>     > >         function (
>     > >         >    approximately 10000 times) exported by a third
>     party DLL.
>     > >         >                 I have two machines ( one with Intel
>     pentium 4
>     > >         > processor and
>     > >         >    other with Intel Xeon processor ) with RHEL 4.0
>     installed
>     > >         on both
>     > >         > of these
>     > >         >    machine.
>     > >         >                If I execute the windows application
>     on the first
>     > >         > machine (one
>     > >         >    with Intel pentium 4 processor ) using WINE, the
>     execution
>     > >         time is
>     > >         > almost
>     > >         >    equal to the execution time in windows machine.
>     > >         >                But, if I execute the same
>     application on the
>     > >         second
>     > >         > machine
>     > >         >    (Intel Xeon processor ), the execution time is
>     almost 6
>     > >         times to
>     > >         > the first
>     > >         >    machine.
>     > >         >               I am using WINE-0.9.2 and wine is
>     installed by
>     > >         > downloading the
>     > >         >    wine source code from winehq.org
>     <http://winehq.org> <http://winehq.org/> <
>     > >         http://winehq.org/>
>     > >         >               Is it a known issue (or )
>     > >         >               Do I need to do any additional
>     configuration
>     > >         setting to
>     > >         > work with
>     > >         >    Intel Xeon processor ?
>     > >         >
>     > >         > Regards
>     > >         > Ajay
>     > >         >
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Can I suggest that you use Xen? Under Xeon processors, Xen can run 
Windows without modification. It would allow you to test for peoblems 
without disk wiping or repartitioning.
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