Re: VGER news

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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:39:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:33:47PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 
> > >Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and
> > >folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility
> > >with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine.
> > 
> > May 24 2004 on kernel.org:
> >   ISC has upgraded our outbound connection to 1000 Mbit/s. Thanks!
> 
> That's www and ftp.kernel.org, the archive server.

Different location, different services.

> > So you have 2000 Mbps now?
> 
> No, this time vger.kernel.org (the mailing list server) got
> an 1000 Mbit/s connection.
> 
> > >This update got considerable performance increase into the
> > >machine for our list loads.  In terms of Bogomips around 7-8,
> > >but for actual loads nearly twice as much.
> > 
> > Wow, that's a lot of bogomips. That's just a little faster than my 386 
> > (running 2.6.13-rc1): http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/proc386.jpg
> 
> Matti is talking about an increase, which implies a difference.

In "absolute" terms about 5600 BogoMips, although all bogos are
not quite the same...   (E.g. Coppermine -> Xeon gives a bit
more difference than just bogos would imply.)

> Erik

/Matti Aarnio
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