From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 13:52: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hades.riverstyx.net [216.94.42.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5345314DB9 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:51:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA31096; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:36:56 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:36:56 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: Mark Ovens , Greg Lehey , Leif Neland , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: K6-2/333, was: Re: Debug kernel by default (was: System sizewith-g) In-Reply-To: <3709EE06.77F97B9E@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >I've seen good speed gains by moving to a 100MHz bus, although this was > >for servers that were doing a lot of database work and heavy network > >traffic. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much for servers doing more > >calculation-intensive work? > > Aye, in a server setup a faster bus does make a difference, but my > reference (Tom's HW) is for workstations. Did I miss the first part > of the thread, was this discussion about servers? If so, my apologies > for my misunderstanding. > > Disk and memory work in a server can max a slower FSB, but if the > server is being used for CPU-intensive work, then what's the point of > spending extra for a server? I'm not sure what the discussion was about... I thought it was just a general discussion about busses? --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message