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Subject: [SunRescue] Re: OT: dual PPro mb's...
From: rescue () sunhelp ! org (Joshua D ! Boyd)
Date: 2001-03-30 20:25:58
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I've noticed that Pine on a Sparc 5/170 with 64megs is sluggish with
around a hundred messages, and really awefull with 200. My solution is to
try and keep less than 100 messages at all times. A 40 meg file in these
machines would scare me.
--
Joshua Boyd
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> > My 200/256 chip matched an Ultra 10 300mhz (same Linux kernel release
> > number--obviously the appropriate architecture version on each--and same
> > gcc version) with identical memory. I've heard several people report that
> > a 200/256 will match a P2-400 on some cpu-intensive tasks.
>
> I found a 200/256 to be about the same as an Ultra 1/170E, in
> benchmarking. However, the Ultra handled I/O *much* better -
> the 200/256 was running FreeBSD, the Ultra Solaris 2.6.
>
> One of our employees (billing department) loaded up a 40meg
> mail folder in pine. The PC box went *whump* and *stopped* for a good
> five-ten seconds while the I/O took place (this was all good scsi).
>
> Same thing on the ultra - nobody noticed. at all.
>
> course, pine sucks for large folders (mutt handles it much better)...
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill@mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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