From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 21 21:50:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14836 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from calvin.saturn-tech.com ([207.229.19.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14722 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by calvin.saturn-tech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06767; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:48:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:48:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: Steve Friedrich cc: Mike Smith , "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" , Joe Gleason , spork Subject: Re: SCSI card used at cdrom.com? In-Reply-To: <199809212046.QAA17455@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > So it really affects us all, thanks to the overclockers. I'm an old > hardware guy and I do not condone overclocking. It's really only It isn't always overclocking. The Cryix 6x86-PR200 chip required a 75 Mhz bus which was one of the reasons that > 66 MHz bus speeds became "official" on some motherboards (even if they supported it before.) Generally, of course, you are right. On the other hand, overclocking CAN be stable. My main dialin/mail/ftp/www/router box is a AM486/133 running with a 50Mhz bus (instead of 33) at 150 Mhz. It has *never* crashed itself since I built the box nearly 2 years ago. It has been down 4 times total since I finished the initial configuration: ~90 days uptime ~155 days uptime ~75 days uptime ~140 days uptime 10:42PM up 44 days, 45 mins, 8 users, load averages: 2.21, 2.24, 2.11 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT drussell v0 - 08Aug98 9days -csh (csh) drussell v1 - 23Aug98 7days -su -m (csh) joy d1 :PPP 10:31PM 10 /usr/sbin/run.pppd auth login +pap tcc d2 - 14Sep98 6days pppd thor9 d3 :PPP 8:29PM 2:12 /usr/sbin/run.pppd auth login +pap drussell p0 calvin.saturn-te Wed09PM 5days -csh (csh) stever p1 den 10:26PM - (pine) drussell p2 calvin 10:41PM - w I Love FreeBSD! > worthwhile to someone willing to sacrifice system stability for > performance. That pretty much restricts it to people playing games, or > experimenting. It's definitely not for production machines. Under normal circumstances, I would agree, even though I don't always follow that rule with my own production machines. :) Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message