Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:21:39 +1600 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: jgrosch@sirius.com, jlemon@americantv.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5r -> current upgrade Message-ID: <199611010621.WAA12836@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <199611010609.WAA21420@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at "Oct 31, 96 10:09:30 pm"
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> >[NetBSD 1.2 on my machines...] >>> 486-133MHz: A little over 6 hours >>> Pentium-120MHz: 3:15 >>> Pentium Pro-200MHz: 1:21 > >[Speaking of FreeBSD on his machine...] >>3 hours, 15 minutes is about I get on a make world of the Mayday >>snapshot. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 Triton II 586-120MHz with 16 Meg of ram, >>512K L2 cache, Adptec 1542cf SCSI controller and 2 1-gig drives. > >Ack! You could do better! Throw away that old ISA piece of trash and >get a PCI SCSI controller. You should be able to get an NCR/Symbios >53c810 based card for less than $100 from whoever you bought your Asus >motherboard from. There is a very definite difference in disk >performance. Especially if your hard drive(s) support tagged-command- >queuing. > My new 2940 is sitting right here. I upgrade this weekend. I was trying to point out that even with a clunker of a controller card one can still get half way decent performance with a good 586 motherboard. Josef "Too terse" Grosch -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.5 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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