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SubjectRe: k6 freeze in kernel 2.0.36
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Thierry Danis wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> >
> > My K6-2/300 (MVP3, PC100, UDMA, AGP G200) runs flawlessly, with no unexpected
> > faults, oops, etc. it's very fast, and very cheap. people who have problems
> > with this hardware should consider getting real PC100, and/or scrutinizing
> > their BIOS settings. I just hate to see hardware demonized because a couple
> > of random messages about trouble.
>
> I've seen some support for the 3Dnow functions of the K6-2.
> What does it mean exactly ? Faster execution ? Better context
> switching ?
>
> Here is my concern :
> At home, I have one K6-2/333 (UW SCSI) and one PPro 200 (SCSI2).
> Compilation time for one source tree takes 16 minutes with the K6
> and 22 minutes with the PPro (quite good).
>
> 2 compilations + MP3 playing (x11amp) on each machine give :
> 65 minutes on the K6 and 50 minutes on the PPro.
>
> So, under moderate load, my brand new 333 MHz computer is much
> slower than my old PPro. Is there a mean to optimize things ?

Actually what it means is that the way better fpu on the ppro results in
the mp3 process causing lower overhead versus the k6-2, fast l2 cache
probably doesn't hurt either..

> > regards, mark hahn.
> > --
> > operator may differ from spokesperson. hahn@coffee.mcmaster.ca
> > http://java.mcmaster.ca/~hahn
> >
> >
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Thierry Danis
>
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