Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:55:40 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) Message-ID: <199510270555.WAA11913@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:31:23 PDT." <199510270531.WAA05178@geli.clusternet>
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>>> "Russell L. Carter" said: > > > > Sorry folks, my ISP is downgrading from FreeBSD Pentiums to SGI > > > > multiprocessor boxes (no offense Larry ;-), so guess what, I've been > > > > basically hosed for the last three days. > > > > > > You went from FAST machines to SLOW machines? Why in earth would you do > > > that? > > > > Actually, they're not the only ones. BEST did the same thing and > > apparently the SGI is working fairly well for them.. But hey, let's > > compare apples with apples here.. The SGI machines are multiprocessor > > R4000 boxes costing tens of thousands of dollars, and a fully loaded > > P5 system will run you $5K or so.. > > > ahem. cough. "BEST" is my ISP... and there is more fun to come, > seems we have had a (and I paraphrase here) "sophisticated and persistant" > attack that has killed the SGIs in many interesting ways. All through > this the lonely little P5-90 box with the NCR controller running a > July kernel is just chugging along, so web service has been unaffected, > as far as I can tell. You of course are joking when saying that Best is using an ncr controllers. Cheers, Amancio
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