From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 19:45: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEA6D37B404 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH plain) at wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 23:07:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3C86A1E0.5040104@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:10:24 -0600 From: Justin L Boss User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Performance 686 - 386 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a considerable difference in performance when you compile your ports as a 686 rather then a 386? I know that you can move data faster with 686 instruction set but can you see a difference at all? Take for instants Samba, will it be able that handle more people, write and read faster. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message