November 26, 20169 yr My aging E5200 can't keep up with the dockers... Just ordered: - i5-6600k https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117561 - ASRock Z170 Pro4S https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157636 - 16GB GSKILL Aegis DDR4 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232249 Will that be a good upgrade for lots of dockers, no VMs?
November 26, 20169 yr Really depends on what dockers you are using. Can you give some examples of what you are running? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
November 26, 20169 yr Yes, that will be a very nice upgrade. You're bumping your CPU "horsepower" from a PassMark of 1494 to a very respectable 7859 => a jump of more than 5x in performance. In addition, 16GB is four times what you're currently "seeing" in your system. [Not sure why you're only seeing 4GB with 6GB installed -- you may have a module installed that's larger than what that board supports.]
November 26, 20169 yr ... just looked up the specs for your current motherboard (C2SEE) => it indeed only supports 2GB modules; so I suspect you have a 2GB and a 4GB module installed; but only 2GB of the 2nd module is "seen" by the board. You won't have any such problem with the new board
November 26, 20169 yr Author Really depends on what dockers you are using. Can you give some examples of what you are running? Just the dockers in my sig; with my tiny E5200, I have to pause everything but Crashplan when I want to backup, then pause Crashplan and unpause everything else.
November 26, 20169 yr As I noted above, this will give you PLENTY of additional "oomph" for your Dockers. Bumping your CPU performance by more than 5X and quadrupling your memory is a VERY significant upgrade. One thought r.e. the issue you're seeing when backing up => I assume when you backup that Crashplan spins up all of your drives ... this could cause a notable "stall" while the drives spin up -- but only at the beginning of the process. Another thing that could be happening at that point is a lot of disk accesses to check what does/doesn't need to be backed up. This could cause some slowdown of other apps (and Crashplan itself) ... particularly if they are also disk intensive. But with the significant increase in your memory, the buffer space for this kind of activity will be MUCH better, so I'd not expect any issues except possibly the initial spin-up "stall". Note: I do not use Crashplan, so I'm not sure of its exact behavior. Also, if you have Cache Directories enabled, that would dramatically reduce any disk thrashing it might otherwise do, since the file directories will already be cached and no disk access will be needed unless a file actually needs to be backed up.
December 4, 20169 yr Hahahaha, it's *so* much faster now! Not exactly surprising -- with five times the CPU power and four times as much memory
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