From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 29 11:59:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15929 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tippy.cybernet.com (tippy.cybernet.com [192.245.33.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15906 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pcobb@localhost) by tippy.cybernet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA05031; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 14:53:41 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: pcobb@cybernet.com From: "Paul N. Cobb" To: Mark Mayo Subject: RE: PPro Question Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 26-Jul-96 Mark Mayo wrote: >>Hi there - I was wondering if many people have experience with PPro >servers running FreeBSD. I just picked up a Digital Celebris XL 6150 >Pentium Pro (150MHz), and I installed FreeBSD 2.1R - no problems with the >install, the DEC uses an NCR on-board SCSI Bios / COntroller, and >everthing worked fine (the Celebris line use daughter cards to hold the >CPU and Ram so you can switch between ALpha's and PPro's..) > >I was wondering if the following 'time' result is reasonable (for a kernel >rebuild, all options - seemed like a good benchmark to me :-)). The >machine only has 16 MB of RAM. The reason I ask is that I'm curious if a >"normal" pentium 200 with SRAM would be faster.. > >Anyways, the results: > >$ time make >>. >>. >183.8u 32.6s 5:20.20 67.9% 989+1207K 1380+59565io 61pf + 0w > >Any experience/opinions of the Pentium Pro's would be greatly appreciated. > >-Mark > I got a kernel build time of just under 4 minutes on a new ASUS P6 200 Mhz. This has a 440 Intel chipset in it. On another Intel motherboard P6 200 Mhz with an Intel 450 KX chipset the kernel build time was 4:43. They both have 32 Megs o f ram. Obviously not all motherboards are equal. What I'm really curious about though is whether or not anyone has been using the pgcc optimized compiler for the P6 yet and what are the performance enhancements? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Cobb Research Engineer pcobb@cybernet.com Cybernet Systems Corp. (313)668-2567 Ann Arbor, MI 'Is this a special moment or should we be disturbed?' - The Tick -----------------------------------------------------------------