Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 00:00:13 -0800 (PST) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: Mathias HARY <mhary@mhary.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building the Workstation of the Gods... Message-ID: <ML-3.4.983606413.3403.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <006b01c0a352$ee0080b0$0f00000a@eagle>
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On 2-Mar-01 at 12:22, Andrew C. Hornback (hornback@wireco.net) wrote: > Actually, I wanna get the machine going with all 6 of the 200s to > start off with, and work from there if 1200 MHz is too slow for a > workstation... *grins* Don't kid yourself - you won't get anywhere near the performance that you'd get from a single 1.2 GHz CPU. SMP just doesn't scale that way in practice. Unless you keep your load average above 1, you aren't likely to see performance better than a single 200 MHz CPU. You'll need a load average near 6 just to keep them all busy. (Unless I missed something and FreeBSD can allocate threads to different CPUs. But even then, it only helps for multi-threaded apps.) Overall, you'd probably be better off with a single CPU 1.2GHz Athlon. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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