From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 4 20:27:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2941567E for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 20:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA25478; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:23:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:23:11 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Adam Strohl Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Darryl Okahata , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message