on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Thanks for the input guys...
> I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing...
> and I'll share my results if anyone's interested.
>
> The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files
>
MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700):
> > Which platform of hardware would be best?
> > G4 from apple
> > Pentium something from somewhere
>
> is that a serious question???
> the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC
> is
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Thanks for the input guys...
> I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing...
> and I'll share my results if anyone's interested.
>
> The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files
>
> Imac 400 Mhz 128 R
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Weird... seems like hard drive performance is
> very important too:)
In fact, disk is often more important than the processor!
When building a box, I go for RAM, disk, and processor in that order.
If you don't have enough RAM,
Thanks for the input guys...
I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing...
and I'll share my results if anyone's interested.
The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files
Imac 400 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive
time= 53 seconds
Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive
time= 80 secon
> > then again, unless you are talking absolutely high volume, there is
> > nothing of big computational cost that your server will do, so i'd
> > assume a pentium would work just as fine. however, if you have the
> > means, go for the G4!
>
> No, go for the PIII, especially if you're going to run
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> is that a serious question???
> the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC
> is just pittyful compared to RISC.
Irrelevant with today's modern CPUs like the PIII.
also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700):
> Which platform of hardware would be best?
> G4 from apple
> Pentium something from somewhere
is that a serious question???
the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC
is just pittyful compared to RISC.
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