Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 17:54:05 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Chris Day" <the_reman@hotmail.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.cdrom.com Message-ID: <199804020154.RAA09373@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:14:50 EST." <19980402011451.21346.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>>> I think the 450MHz versions of PII will be out this summer, but it's >>> mostly the 100MHz bus that I'm interested in! :-) > >Although one of the advantages the PPro does have over the PII's is that >you can have 4 PPro's and you can only have 2 PII's now if you've got >you're ftp site distributed across some machines then maybe its not so >much of a concern, but at the moment PPro's are the chip of choice for >high-end servers, plus I believe the PPro can cache all 4Gb of memory >while PII can only do 512Mb. > >So dream machine would be - 4 PPro 200's (overclocked to 233 :) all with >1Mb of L2 cache and > 512Mb RAM. The cachability restriction is one of the things that the new Slot II processors solve. I don't know how scalable they are with SMP, however, although this isn't an issue for ftp.cdrom.com where I have no near-term plans to go beyond a single processor. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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