On 19-Jan-99, James Pollard took time to write : > i've not messed around with BogoMIPS really, but i do have one question. > your BogoMIPS count went up dramatically, but did it really feel like you > had a performance increase? if so, why switch back? if not, why care > about them unless it was just idle curiosity?
to feel a performance increase : yes ! i'm running distributed.net clients and the rates went up. however i'm not sure since i've change the clients also at the same time :-( .... otherwise the box is primary the home of www.patoche.org (with LTT, and so...) so the box is not heavily used... so i can't see a real difference. i care because i'm sort of an unlucky guy : if there is a bad hardware it's for me. previously i had a bad disk, and a bad motherboard. with this new computer (2 weeks old) i already had some memory chips problem (as it seems a manufacturer produced memory chips which were not running at all with K6 chips) so when i saw this problem, i first thought i had an hardware problem... so i just wanted to be sure that the computer is ok... right now i don't crave for performance, so i switched back. does that enlighten ? Patrick /\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\ Patrick M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.patoche.org/
