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Dual P-100
I sent a private reply to Ira about his question and only then I saw
that it was posted on the list as well. I explained that I saw
impruvments because of various hardware reasons (CPU, memory, bus).
But the bit I liked the most was that when I switched 2.0.10 to 2.0.27
I felt a huge speedup even though my first 2.0.27 compilation wasn't
SMP (have to manually turn on a flag in the Makefile).
Yesterday I switched an ISP's Linux machine from 2.0.6 (Debian 1.1.11)
to 2.0.27 and felt a speedup even through the net).
As for buying two P-100 instead of one P-133 or higher - I bought a
P-100 about six months ago when it was (and quite still) enough for me
(I use the home machine mainly for Internet connectivity and develop
at work on SGI machines, and back then I was in an NT project, so
there was little chance I'll work at home). Since P-100's are
becoming endangered species (or so I was told) I prefered to buy
another one so I can exploit what I allready have. With this setup I
hope to be able to work at home (especially that we are seriously
considering using Linux at least for some of the platforms in the
product). I'd expect multi-cpu to help me compile my stuff faster.
So that's my explenation.
--Amos
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