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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: "Brent N. Hunter" <bhunter@cyberpark.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD and PPro 200 versus Pentium 166 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:40:48 -0700 Organization: CyberPark Lines: 12 Message-ID: <31E469B0.3F04@cyberpark.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bhunter.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) I currently am running an Internet web server on a Pentium 166. I am thinking about upgrading to a 200MHz Pentium Pro since it appears that I will gain significant performance. Can anyone please tell me if this would be the case? Can FreeBSD 2.1 take advantage of the Pentium Pro architecture? Can anyone guess how much performance I will actually gain? I currently have 64MB of RAM and the bottleneck is not memory, but CPU utilization; 40-70 processes running at any point in time is not uncommon for my web server. Thanks for any ideas, thoughts or pointers you might have! Brent Hunter