From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 18:21: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE00D37B589 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark8 (hutch-544.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.183]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA08654; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:20:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <006b01bffdb3$078c45f0$b77009ce@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Koo Wee Leng" , References: <39891ADD.E4114C3@yamee.com> Subject: Re: AMD Athlon Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:26:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koo Wee Leng" To: Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:10 AM Subject: Re: AMD Athlon > I mean is FreeBSD optimized for Athlon k7 platform? > I can't seem to find such info on the site. > Only came across that it runs on Intel and Alpha. > > Rgards, > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, when it says that it runs on Intel it means that it runs on the i386 platform. There are a number of processors that are non-intel that are based on the i386 platform. Many people have had good luck using AMD Athlon and K6-2 processors with FreeBSD. They seem to offer good performance. There was a recent thread in which several people claimed that their K6-2 AMD processors were outperforming Pentium II processors. There was some mention of some kernel optimization that was done for them. Whether the kernel is actually optimized for AMD processors or not I can't say for sure. What I can say is that there a are lot of people using them that seem to be very happy with the performance they are getting. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message