Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bruce Thompson" <> | Subject | Re: PentiumII's. | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:47:42 -0700 |
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We have a 266MHz PII running with the latest red hat release (4.2). Linux gives it 265 BogoMIPS and I've benchmarked it with our code (integer CPU intensive) at being about 35% faster than a PP200 256k.
I don't think any current chip sets allow more than two PII chips yet in addition to the problems already mentioned bellow.
---------- | From: Erik Corry <erik@arbat.com> | To: System Email <sysmail@nebula.com> | Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu | Subject: Re: PentiumII's. | Date: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 11:27 PM | | > How does it comapre to a PPRO 200? :) | | Unlike the PPRO it can't handle more than 512MB. Not that | much of a problem as Linux-86 can only handle slightly less | than 1GB according to a recent thread here. See | <http://www.heise.de/ct/art_ab97/9708020/> if you understand | German. The problem is the level 2 cache, which corrupts | data for machines with more than 512MB. If you switch off | the 2nd level cache it works, but is dog slow. Just switching | off the 2nd level cache above 512MB doesn't work, as it then | switches off the 1st level cache, too, for that area. | | It's pretty much impossible to find a 586 chipset that can | cache more than 512MB (see another article in the paper | version of the same magazine, c't 8/97), so if you need more | you need either a PPro or a RISC processor. | | -- | Erik Corry erik@arbat.com http://inet.uni-c.dk/~ehcorry/
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