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Re:An EPYC NixOS Build Farm by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:06PM (#17789111)
Doesn't that make it more impressive? The AMD build has a quarter of the RAM and still came out ahead!?
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Re:An EPYC NixOS Build Farm by wereHamster on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:15PM (#17789147)
Unsurprisingly, the amount of RAM has little effect on a CPU-heavy workload.
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Re:An EPYC NixOS Build Farm by stefan_ on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:25PM (#17789196)
For this workload, they could have had 16 GiB of RAM and get pretty much identical results.
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