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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



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