Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:56:38 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P6 MB recommendations Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970305185142.5326E-100000@fiber.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <24936.857595762@orion.webspan.net>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Gary Palmer wrote: > Steve Passe wrote in message ID > <199703051936.MAA05910@clem.systemsix.com>: > > this looks like an interesting board, I run the GA586DX and am very happy > > with it. I expect to buy a dual P6 within the next 6 months and > > would choose between this board and the ASUS P65UP5/CP6ND. The ASUS > > is currently the ONLY board known to work with SMP/APIC_IO and PCI cards > > with bridge chips on them. (that is, without doing special programming hacks > > in the kernel to get around the problem) Examples of bridge cards are > > the dual/quad ethernet controllers, the adaptec dual channel 3940, etc. > > Any word about the Tyan Tital Pro boards? We have a couple of those > here, and I was considering getting one for home as they are pretty > nice boards. I have one running smp. I have two p6/166's in there, because I could get them _much_ cheaper than p6/200's, and they had 512K cache (versus 256K for the available p6/200's, at least at some reasonable price. I've had no problem with it at all. I have to admit I haven't been trying any performance checks, except to prove to myself that I really was seeing a real improvement when I activated the 2nd CPU. Did that by comparisons of kernel building times, using make -j from 1 to 8, for both the single and dual processor cases. I did indeed see definite improvement, but I've mislaid that data somewhere. If you want specific performance data, tell me what you want me to do. I can say it makes a hell of a FreeBSD host. > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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