From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 29 01:48:15 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA18677 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:48:15 -0700 Received: from penzance.econ.yale.edu (penzance.econ.yale.edu [130.132.32.100]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA18670 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:48:12 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:47:19 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Michael Smith cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-Reply-To: <199508290807.RAA25296@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > Depends on what you're doing, as far as I can tell. I'll have a clearer > > > picture when the new box (P100) comes in, and I can get some comparative > > > numbers against the low-end (-66) alphas around here. > > > > Hmmm, okay... I meant a Alpha 275Mhz compared to a P5-90... > > There are a few of those around here too, but it's kinda hard to get > realistic number off them, as they're rather busy most of the time. Hmmm, can a FreeBSD machine handle as big of a load as the Alpha? > > I know what you mean but memory is still limited to 256 megs or > > less so there is no way you can have 1 gig of physical ram I think... > > On what? No reason why you can't have several GB of physical memory > if you happen to want it. There may not be any Intel PCI chipsets > that support it (yet), but there's no hard law-of-physics limit > that applies there; there are certainly plenty of GB+ memory > machines kicking around. I mean on Intel PCI Chipsets since even ftp.cdrom.com only has 128 megs of RAM and you need to use swap somehow even on servers since I haven't really seen anyone with a server with more the 256 megs of memory yet... Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center