From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Oct 13 01:55:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA02896 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA02885 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 17907 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Oct 1997 08:28:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19971013102814.25573@paert.tse-online.de> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:28:14 +0200 From: braukmann@tse-online.de To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: success and happiness ... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, A few months ago I put together a new 'personal workstation'. I've chosen: - Gigabyte 686DX (ATX) - PPro 200 (256kB Cache) * 2 (couldn't get the 166MHz/512kB here in Germany) - 128 MB RAM (FP) - AHA 2940AU - IBM DCAS 4.3GB * 2 (narrow) - + network and graphics, etc. The machine I've used before, was based on an ASUS T2P4 / P166 (other components were the same). The system gave reasonable performance for my unix-related work, but rather p***** me off as a real-slow-M$-NT-developer-machine. The new machine performs quite well under NT 4.0. Running FreeBSD/SMP the machine has a real chance to show its capabilities. Whow, ... it really flys along. ... much faster than it was supposed to. Concerning the success-stories about overclocking the PPros to 233 MHz I've tried that, too. In fact, I reset the clockspeed to 200 MHz a few weeks ago, because the performance at the lower speed is more than sufficient for my purposes. Thanks, ... many thanks to the BSD-Developer-Crowd ... especially to the SMP-folks. Regards, Andreas -- /// TSE TeleService GmbH | Gsf: Arne Reuter | /// Hovestrasse 14 | Andreas Braukmann | We do it with /// D-48351 Everswinkel | HRB: 1430, AG WAF | FreeBSD/SMP /// ------------------------------------------------------------------- /// PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key /// Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B