package building performance (was: Re: FreeBSD on AMD Epyc boards)

Sat Feb 17 13:40:17 UTC 2018

> Am 17.02.2018 um 10:09 schrieb Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org>:
> 
> It is unfortunate that there don't seem to be any server-grade Ryzen
> motherboards.  They all seem to be gamer boards with a lot of
> unnecessary bling.

That’s because few people use servers to build packages.

Increasingly, all the other things related to a server are becoming important (fast memory, fast networking, fast I/O) and because everything else is expensive, it’s simply not economical to skimp on the CPU when everything else (SSD, 40GB switch ports, rack space etc.pp.) costs the same.