Re: Multia 166 performance

[C S Hendrix <shendrix escape widomaker com>]

In message <3662ECF8.AA02E956@topdog.logicon.com>, Chris Albertson writes:

> Dave Wreski wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How about IO speeds?  Would they make a good internal web server, or perhap
>s a
> > samba file server?
> 
> I think so.  I have a 166Mhz 32MB Multia.  I've been using it to learn
> about the Alpha.  So far I found they need more RAM then Pentiums.  (Alpha

Actually, they are horrible in I/O.  They use an old NCR 810 SCSI
controller that is a heavy CPU hog so server use is only good if
you don't also need the CPU a lot.

You could probably get a newer NCR controller and disable the
on-board controller for much better performance, if you really
need that.

I have an AS200 and it's OK except for disk I/O.  It isn't terrible,
but you can see the CPU spike during disk operations.



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