From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 29 07:27:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16833 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 07:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user4188@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA16827 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 07:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 29 Jul 1997 14:29:41 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:29:41 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: Rod Ebrahimi cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium II? In-Reply-To: <199707290725.AAA24546@netroplex.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Rod Ebrahimi wrote: > Recently I was looking into some of Dell's server systems and found that > they offer Pentium II 233mhz and 266mhz... I was wondering if anyone had > any experience with these types of systems (Pentium II) or knows how they > will interact with FreeBSD... > > Thank You. > The PPro is still faster for a true 32-bit OS, primarily due to the fact that the L2 is 1:1 with the CPU clock. On the Pentium II, the L2 caching is at 1/2 the CPU clock. The PII runs 16-bit software better and adds MMX extensions, but for a network server the PPro will still be faster. Kevin