Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:03:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, stephane@e2c.com, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: K6-200 Has anyone successfully done a 'make world' ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970812134820.13882B-100000@lightning.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <199708121635.JAA05752@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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> > Anybody know how the Cyrix chips hold up under heavy server usage conditions? > > I have 2 servers based on Cyrix P166+ chips, and they have > been rock solid. I Have not had experience with the low voltage > (2.8v) Cyrix chips yet. One of these servers was run for about 3 days > straight with parallel kernel builds, but unfortunately have not > done a make world on any of them yet. I'l try it today with all > this interest in K6 and make world I am curious. I'll second that... We have several Cyrix 166+'s and a few 150+'s and have never had a problem. I know that they are only 5-series and not 6-, but they are very stable nontheless. We just bought a couple 2.9v and are running on a combination of Gigabyte and Asus boards (mostly GA586HX and T2P4's). One of the 166+'s is in a webserver that pulls near 100K hits/day, and shows no load and never complains (did I ever say I love FreeBSD? ;) ). I'm going to try a make world on my personal 150+ and I'll see how it fares. The performance of the 5-series is definately equal or better thatn the same Intel, except for the heavy math-intensive apps, which Intel still has the upper hand. But, with the price gap of almost $100, I'll wait the extra second or two. Just my $.02 ;) ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-8811 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 256-4605 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net
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