From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 19:16:33 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 19:16:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lyn.net (unknown [206.132.201.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AAE37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.132.201.86] (unverified [206.132.201.86]) by mail.lyn.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:46:01 -0600 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:16:16 -0600 Subject: Re: Xeon From: Andy Rowland To: FreeBSD-Stable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That *is* the Xeon's speed, in many ways. The cache is [don't flame me if I'm wrong, please...but the truth is OK ;-)] closer to the PPC 750's backside cache than it is normal level 2, so it's a lot quicker, and it has more of it. What I've seen of the PIII, both the regular and Xeon, is that it's a nice chip...*if* you put the right OS on it. -- --Andy Rowland Grand River Network andy@tigertown.k12.mo.us rowland@lyn.net > From: Presence > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:07:31 -0800 (PST) > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Xeon > > [snipped a buncha stuff] >Queries are > typically 20% faster compared to the PIII, probably due to the increased > cache on the CPU. > > Just my opinions. > - Presence > > [a bunch more] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message