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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and PPro 200 versus Pentium 166 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:46:07 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <31E7543F.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <31E469B0.3F04@cyberpark.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Brent N. Hunter" <bhunter@cyberpark.com> 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 It will, it does, and you can expect around 3-4 times the performance on compile times, general load handling, you name it. I've used a couple of P6/200 systems now and they were really quite impressive with FreeBSD. I felt like I was back on one of my PA RISC boxes again. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project