From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 22:06:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA04086 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA04081 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00332; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:06:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Geoff Mohler cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Pro? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Geoff Mohler wrote: > Is FreeBSD in a good position to take full advantage > of the Pentium PRO processors? Not really. It can barely take advantage of the Pentium processor (mainly because our version of gcc doesn't support Pentium extensions). If you are planning on going multi-processor then tune into the freebsd-smp list. > And on another slightly related note, what would be the > best configuration for a Web site under FreeBSD, that would > require a minimum of 1Million hits per day. 1 MILLION? Holy cow! Lots of RAM, 100-mbit link, fast hard disks. Just a quick guess. Perhaps someone else can comment (how about wcarchive / www.cdrom.com?). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major