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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and PPro 200 versus Pentium 166 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:35:56 -0700 Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <31E53B7C.41C67EA6@star-gate.com> References: <31E469B0.3F04@cyberpark.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Brent N. Hunter wrote: > > 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! > You may want to take a look at ftp.freebsd.org . It is a Pentium Pro 166 mhz and it handles 1200 ftp connections 8) As for the cpu utilization it really depends on what the processes are doing and if they are cpu bound upgrading to a PPRO 200mhz will definitly speed up your environ. You may also want to consider doing a performance analysis on your processes who knows it may be a lot cheaper to speed up the programs than upgrading the CPU 8) -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD