From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 10 13:19:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA27361 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA27356 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id OAA14032; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:18:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704102018.OAA14032@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: AMD 586 CPU To: adrian@apic.net (Adrian Carter) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:18:14 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970409152000.0081a1d0@mail.apic.net> from "Adrian Carter" at Apr 9, 97 03:20:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Adrian Carter opined: > We run 2 AMD 5x86/133's, [...] It is compiled as both CPU options I486 > and I586, being a production machine, I am reluctant to see if it works as > I586 alone. The AMD 5x86 is a 486-class processor and thus needs "I486" cpu support in the kernel. The AMD K5 processors are pentium-class processors and require "I586" cpu kernel support. I've not used and 5x86s, but now have 3 machines running on K5s and feel the performance is quite good. The K5/133 outperforms the P5/133 in everything we've tried under FreeBSD, and is a fair bit cheaper. YMMV. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com