Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:55:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> Cc: Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se>, somsky@annwn.phys.washington.edu, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Examples of FreeBSD SMP success? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909211853100.98114-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909220008140.12619-100000@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > How on earth do you do it? Softupdates?? My UniProcessor Celeron366 @ 458 > takes 15 hours (4.0 current of 13 September). I do use it for mail and the > like, but no CPU intensive stuff. > I have also run FreeBSD (both 3.1 and 4.0) on a Dual PPro 200 @ 233. One > Seti file was only slightly quicker than letting the box do two at a time. > Maybe 5 % or so. Of course two CPU's need twice the amount of RAM, I > would say. But I hardly expect anyone running an SMP box with less than 64 > MB. So that cannot be the issue, probably. Hmmm, Asus P2B-D motherboard, with 128MB of RAM, IDE disks. seti is VERY light on disk. Also, I meant to say 15 hours, not 5. However, it took 15 hours if 1 block was processing, or 15 hours if there were two. That was my point. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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