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Just to give my input here... |
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I run a Ultra 60 dual 450MHz/4MB cache with 1GB of RAM (8*128MB) and two |
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Seagate Cheetah 18XL 18.2GB drives in RAID0. |
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The SCSI bus is only 40MB/s and a single drives can do about 33MB/s or a bit |
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faster (been a while since I last tested that). |
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The machine runs xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 with gnome 2.8, xchat 2.4.0, Gaim 1.0.2 |
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and FireFox 1.0 mainly. |
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Loadings times are well acceptable though gnome-terminal isn't as fast as |
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loading on my main PC (a AMD XP-M 2400+ @ 2420MHz), but doable. |
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What I would like to try is using my SUN dual channel scsi controller and |
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hooking up the two drives to that in RAID0. That should improve speed a lot |
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too. |
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Greetz, |
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freshy98 |
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> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:19:25PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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> > Here, again, I wanna be suggested by you experts. |
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> > |
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> > 1) I am a saleman (luckly, I am just technical enough to use gentoo, not |
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> > any more). My work mostly involve mozilla and openoffice, acroreader |
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> etc. |
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> > 2) I have been using an very old notebook I brought several years ago, |
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> > thinkpad with Pentium 1G. Later the CPU gets burned, so replaced a |
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> > 800MHz. I don't use desktop computer. |
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> > |
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> > I want to have a sparc desktop now. We are using in the company very |
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> > complicated web-based database and customer management system, I usually |
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> > (with my notebook) wait 8 seconds untill one webpage fully loaded, |
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> > because each page is too complicated with javascript and lots of forms |
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> > and tables. (Network is very fast.) I hate to let my customer wait 8 |
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> > seconds on the phone untill I could see the customer's record, because 8 |
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> > seconds feels like 80 seconds on the phone, and sometimes I need to go |
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> > through 3~5 pages untill I can find a customer record. So mainly, I wish |
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> > mozilla is multi-threads and my new sparc could make this very |
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> > application (mozilla) go faster. |
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> > |
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> > A) is U2 with dual 400Mhz fast enough for me? |
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> > B) how about U60 with dual CPU? |
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> A uses an sbus, B pci (64bit) |
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> A has one GRAPHICS BUS, B has two (if you want to go for dual head) |
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> I am using B with 755 MB RAM and two CPUs (i thing ~300 mhz but i don't |
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> know) |
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> I don't think that Sparc II Systems can compete with well balanced |
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> P3 and P4 Systems. (maybe dual 480 MHZ) |
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> But it's cool to have dual CPU and there is one way to boost Sparc |
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> Systems: |
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> Get as much memory you can effort and hope everything will get cached in |
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> Memory, then the Performace is quite good, even for single threaded |
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> Desktop |
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> applications (at least 512 MB, 1GB + would be fine) |
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> regards klaus |
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