[Tfug] Stuph Avaylible Four Sail

[Earl]

I run some IIi 440s and had a PII 450, both with debian etch, and the BOGO MIPS (for whatever that's worth) were about the same.  The video was a big bottle neck for me.

There were issues with the 2.6 kernel with some of the Sun IIi servers.  I don't know if they have been solved or not but it doesn't seem like it from the sparc list.  That's why I went with 3.1 on the Sun Don is talking about.  I also was too busy at the time to play very much with the Sun.

Earl

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-- Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:

> UltraSPARC IIs are slower than x86 chips (Pentium
> PRO or better) of
> the same clock rate in my experience.  My Ultra 5
> with a 400 MHz
> UltraSPARC IIi runs (very roughly) at about the same
> speed as a 300
> MHz Pentium II.

Note that the U5 (and U10) are *IDE* machines.
And, Sun's IDE interface is notoriously slow.

I think you would find a (single CPU) U30 at 400MHz
would outperform the U5.

--don


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