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From: elh@shellx.best.com (Ed Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Curious about the Pentium Pro
Date: 9 Dec 1995 11:00:24 -0800
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Mark Musgrove (musgrov@birch.ee.vt.edu) wrote:

: Has anyone tried to install FreeBSD on the new
: P6 systems?  How long did it take to compile the
: kernel?

: Mark 

 p5/90mhz,   ad2940 (~3.3mby/s iozone), kernel compile:	11.5min
 p6/150mhz,  ad2940 (~5mby/s iozone),   kernel compile:	 3.5min

	slowest benchmark i've run is a little less than
	2x the p90, fastest is 4x, typical is 3x.
	now, if only it was a 64bit architecture machine, with
	a vm subsystem with pid's...

		-elh