From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 12 11:09:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07960 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.tbe.net (qmailr@lightning.tbe.net [208.208.122.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA07955 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14014 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Aug 1997 18:03:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:03:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: John Milford cc: "John T. Farmer" , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, stephane@e2c.com, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: K6-200 Has anyone successfully done a 'make world' ? In-Reply-To: <199708121635.JAA05752@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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