Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:20:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: k6 freeze in kernel 2.0.36 |
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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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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