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Article #104Re: Pentium-90 box for Linux?
From: David J. Hughes
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 02:33
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 02:33
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Don Ledford (ledford@squid.networx.com) wrote: : I'm using a Gateway P-90 with SCSI disks (Adaptec 1542 SCSI). I haven't : spent time on the Gateway packaged sound system and the ATI Mach-64 : is currently running as an SVGA at 1024x768. All considered its working very : well. If feels faster than a Sparc 5 in every way except NFS. : I'm using NFS (a 3COM?509 ethernet card) with a mixture of UNIX : workstations. Sony CDROM, Colorado Jumbo 250 tape. I hate to say it but the reason your NFS performance is bad isn't because of your hardware. Try running FreeBSD 2 on the same gear and you'll see NFS performance more than double (seriously). I was porting mSQL to both Linux and FreeBSD a while back using an NFS mounted source tree onto a Pentium and with FreeBSD I didn't even notice it wasn't local. With Linux I just about shot myself waiting for the compilation. The slow-down was that dramatic. -- __ David J. Hughes - Bambi@Bond.edu.au / \ / / / http://Bond.edu.au/People/bambi.html /___/ __ _ ____/ / / _ / \ / \ / \ / / / / / \ / Senior Network Programmer, Bond University \___/ \__// / \__/ \__/ / / / Qld. 4229 AUSTRALIA (+61 75 951450)
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