From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 11 12:26:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from calis.blacksun.org (Calis.blacksun.org [168.100.186.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA3E14EC1 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:26:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: from localhost (don@localhost) by calis.blacksun.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA21595; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:27:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Don To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: rdabney@lasg.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AXP pci/33 & memory question In-Reply-To: <68261.937071094@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > If you think a 233 is slow, you should try to the 100 Mhz 21064 :-) > (I have it running here with -CURRENT, but it's impressively slow.) 233 slow? I have to wonder exactly what everyone here is trying to do with their alphas? I use my 3 alphas as primary nameserver, secondary name server and firewall. They are 21064 233's and they are extremely useable, quite fast and in general a nice machine to work with. If you want to greatly improve the speed of your alpha you really need to make sure it has enough memory. 96 megs is the minimum I would put (and is what I do have in mine) in for a useable system. Obviously more is always fun. These are not the latest and greatest machine that Compaq makes and for how old they are and how cheap mine were I think they are excellent machines. -Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message