From: Mike '/m' 


As I type, I'm building a copy of FreeBSD 4.11 on a 233MHz Pentium II. I
use it at work for our bug tracking database, internal wiki, etc.

FreeBSD doesn't seem to tax that CPU too much with our usage.

 /m

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:14:34 -0400, "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote:

>Its still a pig, and that impacts everything in a system.  A gig of memory
>running pigware like this can render a 3ghz P4 down to P200 performance
>levels.  All these new CPU's are hyper-sensitive to getting good L1 hits.
>
>
>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:42a02902$2{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
>> news:429f5e9f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> > comparason.  Gnome can drive a machine with 128M right to its knees
>> trashing
>>
>> My video card has 256M so that's not exactly an impressive statement. I
>> don't think you can even buy a machine today with 128M.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>

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