Re: CPU question
i'd like to know how you could possibly get 2 K5-166s to work together,
from what I've read AMD CPUs have never supported intel's SMP spec, and
never will due to intels patents. AMD apparently supports a SMP spec
called OpenPIC (i think?) but no boards support it ..
nate
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Michelle Konzack wrote:
staron >Hello,
staron >
staron >I was running a Web-Server on a GigaByte GA 586 HX with a Intel Pentium 200.
staron >Now I am using a GigaByte GA 586 DX which is a Dual-Pentium. OK, I have no
staron >two Pentium 200 but two AMD K5-166 and I have tried tu use them.
staron >
staron >The Two-K5-166 version is fast as a P II with 500 MHz.
staron >
staron >With the kernel 2.2.13 is the multiprocessor system no problem.
staron >
staron >You can get Dual-Pentiums with CPU's much cheaper as a P700.
staron >I have payed around 80 US$ for the Mainboard and the CPU's.
staron >
staron >Michelle
staron >
staron >P.S.: If I get a second Intel Pentium 200, my Web-Server will be overkill
staron > for my small Network which has a 2 MBit cable modem to the INet.
staron >
staron >
staron >At 17:19 28.01.2000 +1100, you wrote
staron >--------> This was the original Message:
staron >>Hi,
staron >> I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much
staron >> everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the
staron >> load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22.
staron >>
staron >> In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is
staron >> roughly the same. So should I get two slower CPUs, or one fast
staron >> CPU. Which case will the server run faster/perform better?
staron >>
staron >> Thanks in advance.
staron >>
staron >>Shao.
staron >>
staron >--------> The Reply begins not here, it is at the beginning ^
staron >
staron >
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