Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:24:38 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Stephen <5tephen@linuxstart.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Recommended CPU ? Message-ID: <3763CD36.A4189036@3-cities.com> References: <19990613072126.5379.qmail@ns1.filetron.com>
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Stephen wrote: > > Which CPU recommended to run Freebsd ? > 1. Celeron > 2. K6-2 It really depends on what you are going to do. If you intended to do some serious number crunching, which is FPU and memory intensive, than neither choice is a good one. You will save now and pay later, and later, and later... Your question then becomes one of which cpu performs least poorly. It all comes down to whether you are bumping into one of the cpu's poor features or not. I am using an application called setiathome that is processing radio telescope collected data on a Celeron 433 running FreeBSD 3.2-stable and on two P-II 400's running NT. The application requires 50% longer to process a work unit (WU) on the Celeron than it does on NT systems. The NT machines have PC-100 memory and the Celeron doesn't and PC-66 memory is 50% slower. If I leave the pretty display on, the NT systems require twice as long to process a WU as the FreeBSD system does. I joke that it can be "pretty" slow. If an application was using data out of cache the Celeron would have the advantage over the P-II. It depends on what you are going to do. The K6 can use PC-100 memory and anything that by design uses the fast memory get's my vote. The old decision tree of choosing any two of Speed, Quality, or Price still applies. The definitions have just changed slightly. Kent > > Thank You, > > Regards, > Stephen > > ------ > Do you do Linux? :) > Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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