Overclock it! My p2-750 (that's 2x333's) does POVbench in 45 seconds.
Aside, does anyone no where benchmarks have been done to show how linux
scales with processor number?
Igor Markov wrote:
> Just to let you know about the new dual-processor system assembled
> over the weekend with EPOX KP6-BS motherboard and 2x PII-350.
> Assembling/testing/resetting bios took several hours for two people.
> The system is a blast (and could even accomodate PIIIs w/o other
> changes to hardware and software).
>
> Building a particular C++ library takes
> 38 wall seconds with uni-processor kernel
> 26 wall seconds with dual-processor kernel
> (I can choose the kernel at boot time)
> 15 wall seconds with dual-processor kernel and parallelizing make
>
> I am using a precompiled SMP Linux kernel from
> kernel-smp-2.2.5-22.i686.rpm (June) and the UP kernel
> kernel-2.2.5-5.i586.rpm (May) that came with RedHat6.0
> (this may explain why the UP experiment was so much slower)
>
> For a comparison, building the same C++ library with the same compiler
> on an Ultra-10 (300MHz) running Solaris 2.7 took 51 wall seconds.
>
> Igor
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