From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Jul 30 12:29:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.96.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF68715208 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (housley@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04179 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:29:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <37A1FD14.CC862D4E@thehousleys.net> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:29:24 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: SMP and the Celeron References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Eric J. Schwertfeger" wrote: > > Between this and the rumors that Intel is going to disable Celeron SMP in > the next Celeron revision, I have to consider Celeron SMP an interesting > experiment, but not something you'd actually use in a production > environment. It's a good way to experiment with SMP for SMP's sake, but > unless you're doing the kind of stuff that does fit in the L2 cache, the > performance gain isn't what you'd hope for. > I would agree almost completely. I am running an overclocked dual celeron system for a "local production" server. With one of my initial goal of getting SMP running affordably. The next step of 2xPIII-? processors is more afforable down the line where I only have to buy them and not them PLUS everything else. Jim -- James E. Housley PGP: 1024/03983B4D System Supply, Inc. 2C 3F 3A 0D A8 D8 C3 13 Pager: pagejim@notepage.com 7C F0 B5 BF 27 8B 92 FE "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message