From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 29 13:15:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29268 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29197 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:14:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA30170 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:14:24 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <9806291802.aa03736@s3.synx.com> References: Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:18:12 -0400 To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 6:14 PM +0200 6/29/98, Remy NONNENMACHER wrote: > Let's stop the pro/cons war about P2/Pro. I propose that those > interested grab the rc5des client on www.distributed.net and post > the result of -benchmark, along with processor type and speed. > This will close the debate quickly. It will only close the debate on which machine is faster at running rc5des... It also doesn't address price/performance considerations. I went with a dual PPro system simply because I stumbled upon a great deal. On the other hand, I got that great deal because PPro's are getting somewhat scarce, so I can understand someone wanting to buy into the newer chipsets. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message