From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 5:11:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bmw.cobaka.com (bmw.cobaka.com [209.67.40.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85E837BAD1 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@villaweb.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by bmw.cobaka.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA62695; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:18:08 -0700 (PDT) From: winter X-Sender: winter@bmw.cobaka.com To: Nader Turki Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-RC In-Reply-To: <003101bff2e5$f343c280$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From my personal experience (currently running: Dual PIII-600 1GB PC133 SDRAM two Ultra2 20GB SCSI's ) if you are just running any single program (game, gnome, john, whatever) it will make an ALMOST 0 difference. If you are running a heavily hit webserver, it will make a huge difference. It only helps programs that are multi/threaded or multi/forked. httpd is mult-forked. --Phil On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Nader Turki wrote: > Hi there, > I'm running a shell/web server: > PII400MHz > 512MB ECC PC100 SDRAM > 9.1GB SCSI Ultra2 LVD > 36.4GB SCSI Ultra2 LVD > > I just upgraded from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.0-RC few days ago and have a question > 'cause i've never tried a daul processors. > > Will my server be much faster if i add another PII400MHz? > I mean to have a Dual PII 400 MHz Processors! > > Will I be able to tell the difference? > > Hope someone answers me 'cause I wanna upgrade but I'm kindda new to FreeBSD > and don't have much experience. To be honest I dunno if it's worth the > upgrade 'cause some told me it won't do you any good and won't feel the > difference in speed! > > Thanks you, > > Nader > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message