>
> I had this e-mail exchange with a vendor in a hardware newsgroup-- but
> it was a group about ASUS motherboards, not CPUs or linux. Since this
> sounded far too good, I am wondering if anyone can confirm or deny the
> numbers here [`me' is myself speaking, `him' is Rick Lindsay, a vendor
> of decent reputation on the net].
>
> him1: Complete Linux kernel compile times:
> him1: Dual P2-300, 64mb SDRAM, 75 seconds
> him1: Dual PPro166/512, 64mb EDO, 45 seconds
>
> me2- Eh, I am shocked. *45* seconds!! What kind of setup are you using,
> me2- Rick? I ran a compile of the Linux 2.1.98 kernel on a machine withg
> me2- PPro 166/512s in a SuperMicro P6DNE, a SCSI-II 7200rpm disk, and 192MB
> me2- in EDO SIMMs [using BIOS memory settings of 60ns, speculative reads on
> me2- and PCI posting on]. I used make -j bzlilo which took a total of six
> me2- minutes to finish. What version of kernel and which compiler are you
> me2- fielding over there?! And more importantly, are you fielding Cheetah
> me2- RAID-5's on a AHA2940U2W?
sounds *too* good. I use "make -j install" all the time on my 4-processor
pentium pro 200mhz machine from ALR. It takes exactly 3 minutes to
complete. No way a dual is going to run in 1/4th that time...
I also had, until about 2 weeks ago, a dual PII/300, and it was slower
than my quad-pro machine.
>
> him2: Just an IDE drive, but with multithreading enabled...
>
> me1- [I am about to put together a dual PPro166/512 box with the 256MB
> me1- of main memory in a SuperMicro P6DOF board [Orion chipset, the
> me1- 4-way interleaved memory.]
>
> him1: The P2 is designed to run Windows 95, not a full 32 bit OS like Unix
> him1: or NT, conversely a PPro runs '95 rather poorly.
>
this is nuts. The PII is the same architecture as the Ppro, except that
the L2 cache is not as fast. The Pro runs the L2 at 200mhz, the PII/300
(or any PII) runs the L2 at clock/2. But internally they look the
same, at least according to the stack of manuals I have from each,
published by intel. The PII's do have the mmx stuff, but that doesn't
do a thing at present...
> me2- ... you think that Dual PPro166's are a good investment if they can
> me2- be had? I still see plenty of Tyan Titan Pro's [the baby-AT S1662 or
> me2- the ATX S1668] and PPro166's for sale at $170 per. PPro180s [retail]
> me2- can even be had at $170 [I assume you don't think much of them].
>
> him2: The only PPro to get is with 512k cache, 166/512's are hard to find,
> him2: but inexpensive when you do ... some we got had been remarked to
> him2: 200/512, but were really 166/512s..
>
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