Re: VGER news

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 09:34:04 EST



>Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
>folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
>with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.

May 24 2004 on kernel.org:
ISC has upgraded our outbound connection to 1000 Mbit/s. Thanks!

So you have 2000 Mbps now?

>This update got considerable performance increase into the
>machine for our list loads. In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
>but for actual loads nearly twice as much.

Wow, that's a lot of bogomips. That's just a little faster than my 386
(running 2.6.13-rc1): http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/proc386.jpg

>We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu
>adversely. Probably nobody noticed it either. :-)
>
>/Matti Aarnio

Or were you missing a 'k' suffix in the bogo number <grin> + ;-)



Jan Engelhardt
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