Anyone Here running on x86-64 Hardware Yet

[Joe Conway]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> We have clustered dual opterons as welll as some single and dual cpu 
> desktop/workstation machines... we like them. We don't as yeah have any 
> running oracle although we do have 4-way xeon mp's doing that.

FWIW, I have a FC2 dual opteron workstation, and just in the last few 
days got Oracle 9i up and running on it. Not a production server, mind 
you, just my own sandbox.

I've found my workstation to be (subjectively) *very* fast. I find that 
WinXP inside a VMWare host is nice and responsive, as is Lotus Notes 
under wine (CrossOver Office). In a slightly more quantitative test, I 
can compile Postgres from a clean source tree in 1.5 minutes using "make 
-j 2", versus anywhere from 4.5 to 12 minutes on other machines that I 
have readily available (part of that is undoubtedly scsi vs ide drives).

Joe