Motherboard Questions

1997-02-23 Thread Edward McKnight
Hi, I'm running Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.6) and am getting ready to drop buck$ into a faster motherboard. (I've read the hardware howto on sunsite and haven't found my questions addressed there.) Pointers to other docs or lists welcome. I'm considering single vs. dual cpu Pentium or PPro boards

RE: Motherboard Questions

1997-02-23 Thread Peter Iannarelli
For Speed freaks: I have a dual PP200. I've run with and without 2 CPUs on a TYAN FX Pro mother board. The second CPU really boosts the performance when running multi threaded apps. (java) Otherwise I did not experience much of a performance improvement. Compiling the entire Linux kernel to

Re: Motherboard Questions

1997-02-23 Thread Rob Browning
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Compiling the entire Linux kernel to about 10 minutes. You must be low on memory or something. I get less than 5 minutes on my single PP200. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .