Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:03:45 +0100 From: Anthony Barlow <tony@warp.co.uk> To: Dave Hummel <HUMMDN36@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU>, tony@mail.warp.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 586 CPU Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970410100345.0068a638@mail.warp.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <01IHHBSBI2LY9LVSNA@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU>
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At 23:44 08-04-97 -0500, Dave Hummel wrote: >Anthony, >I run the AMD 5x86 133, compiled as a 486, and it has performed flawlessly >under 2.1.6 for about six months. It's on a very light load machine, but on the >other hand I have it overclocked, so I guess I'm pushing it's capabilities in >some respect. Seems to be rock solid. We're building a AMD 586 150. The machine is planed to be a mail server accepting both inbound and outbound mail, it will also be our POP server as well as run 4 light mailing lists. As it's a 'major server' you can appreciate why we've asked. AT the moment our mail server is an Intel P90 running Linux 1.2.13 and as performed flawlessly with uptimes in excess of 60 days, it's never crashed, we only reboot it to clear the RAM and any possible stuck processes. The reason for the change is that during peak periods it will see loads of around 8, however 99% of the time the load is 0.01, where wondering with the price of AMD 'pentium' chips, if we could the load would reduce during those heavy periods. BTW we know what causes the load - procmail when it delivers our announcement mailing list. I've just seen in a previous message something about qpoppers bullitin feature, I wonder if using that feature will get around this problem? Regards, Anthony
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