From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 20:23:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA21074 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21051 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from f30.hotmail.com ([207.82.250.41]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA03964 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by f30.hotmail.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA15056; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:30:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:30:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702120330.TAA15056@f30.hotmail.com> Received: from 202.190.129.71 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:30:14 PST From: "M.C Wong" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: UltraSPARC and MicroSPARC vs Pentium Pro ? Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I am making recommendation for using FreeBSD or BSDI as a WWW server for a hospital WWW server and I have the following on the prefered list: Sun Netra i/170L (UltraSPARC 167MHz) as WWW, SMTP, caching proxy server. Sun Netra i5 (MicroSPARC 110Mhz) as firewall. On the other hand, I am keen on recommending FreeBSD or BSDI with the following hardware: Intel Pentium Pro 200 for WWW, SMTP, caching proxy server and Intel Pentium 166 for firewall. However, I need more real-world benchmark for the following CPUs: UltraSPARC 167MHz vs PPro 200Mhz, and MicroSPARC 110Mhz vs Pentium 166Mhz. Without some hard figures showing comparison, my recommendation will not be too convincing. Can anyone help ? Thanks in advance. Regards, M.C Wong --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------