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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:23:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.991104221803.36701A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911042124140.1306-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net>

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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Adam Strohl wrote:

> 
> In the real world the 1/2 the cache at 2x the speed makes all of JACK
> in performance difference from the "real" PIIs.  It rocks.

It depends very much on what the load on the box is.  I have a dual PII/400
box at home, which doesn't get beat on too hard most of the time.  I put a
pair Celeron 400s in for a week, and couldn't subjectively tell the
difference.  My Seti@home rate on the box went down ~10%, and my buildworld
times went up a couple minutes, but for the sort interactive use I do, which
isn't CPU bound in the general case, there was no difference.  For
workstations, dual Celery are good, cheap way of buying some extra oomph.
For a production server applictation, I wouldn't think about it.  

David Scheidt



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