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From: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dual cpu stuff...
Date: 26 Aug 1996 07:34:51 GMT
Organization: Michael L. VanLoon
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.96Aug26003451@MindBender.serv.net>
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In-reply-to: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi's message of 25 Aug 1996 15:36:08 +0300
In article <4vphbo$jvb@cantina.clinet.fi> mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) writes:
Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Mika Ruohotie (mickey@cantina.clinet.fi) wrote:
>: i'm about to get a dual cpu pentium board in few weeks time, and realized
>I'd get a dual PPro board - no problem with the cache then !
yeah... i know... but the cpu is not that _cheap_ you know... :p
Actually, a 200MHz Pentium Pro costs less than a 200MHz Pentium right
now. And, if the various benchmarks can be believed, is about 50%
faster. It should do even better than that in a dual setup since the
L2 cache is "in" the CPU.
>really depends on your application. If you've got a lot of user-
>level cpu intensive code you'll get max benefit. If you've got
>lots of kernel-level code, the benefit will be reduced.
ok, so i assume on news server the benefit is not that noticeable?
Well, a news server with lots of reader processes would benefit quite
a bit. A news server with one innd isn't going to benefit hardly at
all.
i only feel sceptical about the ppro chipsets, any major bugs in the latest
that are not too public?
Avoid the Orion chipset motherboards like the plague. Get a
Natoma-based board if you go Pentium Pro.
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