From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 13:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B18514C80 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:17:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09650; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:42:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:42:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Vincent Poy Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Celeron 266? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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