Hi
It's most likely due to the current celerons having better memory bandwith
than the K6-2's.
The more data pr. time unit that can get through the memory system the
more time will be spend by the CPU doing calculations instead of sitting
idle waiting for data.
This is one good reason for using an athlon with a good motherboard for
serious software RAID machines.
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I did some tests comparing a k6-2 500 vs a celeron 400 - on a raid5
> system - found some interesting results
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> Raid5 write performance of the celeron is almost 50% better than the k6-2.
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> Is this b/c of mmx (as james manning suggested) or b/c of the FPU?
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> I used tiobench in sizes of > than 3X my memory size on both systems -
> memory and drives of both systems were identical.
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> Thanks
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