Like in an earler post, I am running a pair of processors, and they come up "unknown" in the stepping. I was wondering if there is something to be done (on my end) about this? This got me thinking, I wonder how well supported the Celeron (newer, Mendicino, with cache) family is supported under Linux, and Linux SMP? Anyone have some informed info on this? For background, my system is a Asus P2B-DS, with 2 SMP modified Celeron 300a's, running at 450 to 463Mhz (and occasionally 300Mhz, so calm down Douglas! :-) ) Kernel compiles (currently my only benchmark) run around 1 min 30 sec. Any suggestions, BTW, on good benchmarks for Linux? I'd like to explore the thought I'd heard that the full speed cache of the Celeron may yield more performance than the larger half speed one of the standard PII's, under SMP. Any sites with a lot of bench results for SMP systems?? I know its a hack, right now, to run dual Celerons, but you never know, they might re-enable them in the future! It might be worth addressing this, for the future.. Thanks.. Jon PS.. if interested in the SMP mod, and or processors, mail me for more info.
