Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:42:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Celeron 266? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911071341230.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911071251070.344-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I was wondering does anyone else here have experience running > FreeBSD with a Celeron 266 CPU? The 266 is the one without the L2 cache > so basically it has no L2 cache at all. We have it overclocked at 400Mhz > by using 100Mhz FSB. Anyways, it seems like every once in awhile it would > hang for a few brief moment. Is this because of the non-existent L2 > cache? The AMD K6-2 400 with 128 megs of RAM blows it away even doing a > make world when this machine has 384 megs of RAM. The K6-2 400 took 1 > hour and 30 minutes to finish the make world while the Celeron 266 CPU > took 3 hours and 30 minutes. Over-clocking leads to unpredictable results, your guess is as good as ours. If you experiance the problem when clocked normally it'd be interesting problem to persue. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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