Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: : Hi, : I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much : everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the : load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22. : : In Australia here, the price of

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
At 07:28 28.01.2000 -0800, you wrote > This was the original Message: >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 >cal

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello, > > I was running a Web-Server on a GigaByte GA 586 HX with a Intel > Pentium 200. Now I am using a GigaByte GA 586 DX which is a > Dual-Pentium. OK, I have no two Pentium 200 but two AMD K5-166 and I > have tried tu use them.

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
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, Mic

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I was running a Web-Server on a GigaByte GA 586 HX with a Intel Pentium 200. Now I am using a GigaByte GA 586 DX which is a Dual-Pentium. OK, I have no two Pentium 200 but two AMD K5-166 and I have tried tu use them. The Two-K5-166 version is fast as a P II with 500 MHz. With the kernel

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:19:11 +1100, Shao Zhang writes: > > In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is > roughly the same. So should I get two slower CPUs, or one fast > CPU. Which case will the server run faster/perform better? depends whether the load is cp

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Most of the time servers are I/O bound. So it would be wise to spend your money on a good NIC, SCSI adapter, SCSI hard disk, fast (IO wise) MOBO, etc. If you can re-use the P166 then do it, otherwise put a nice celeron in your server and spend your money on the I/O stuff... Regards, Onno At 0

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
dual cpus would probably be best, dual cpu mainboards are usually higher quality then single cpu mainboards, which helps. load of 5 to 22 eh..damn. what does that machine do? nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: shao >Hi, shao > I am going to set up a new server which will serve prett

CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22. In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is rough