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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:36:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net>
Cc:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: K6-2/333, was: Re: Debug kernel by default (was: System sizewith-g)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904061234440.30339-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <3709EE06.77F97B9E@uswest.net>

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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> >I've seen good speed gains by moving to a 100MHz bus, although this was
> >for servers that were doing a lot of database work and heavy network
> >traffic.  Perhaps it wouldn't matter much for servers doing more
> >calculation-intensive work?
> 
> Aye, in a server setup a faster bus does make a difference, but my
> reference (Tom's HW) is for workstations.  Did I miss the first part
> of the thread, was this discussion about servers?  If so, my apologies
> for my misunderstanding.
> 
> Disk and memory work in a server can max a slower FSB, but if the
> server is being used for CPU-intensive work, then what's the point of
> spending extra for a server?

I'm not sure what the discussion was about... I thought it was just a
general discussion about busses?

---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet



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