Hello,
We are considering building a farm of pentium or alpha machines for the
exclusive purpose of serving www requests. We are a bit concerned at the
comparisons between the pentium 166 MHz processor and the Alpha 166 MHz
processor (in a 200 4/166 system). The spec95 int is much better on the
pentium (2.31 to 4.76) and the specfp95 is also better on the pentium
(3.22 to 3.37). I know that our alpha systems perform very well and we
have a alpha 4/100 that performs much better than any pentium we've ever
used so I'm wondering how useful are these benchmarks? What should we
use? DU 4.0 is coming out and promises to be very good. I rather run it
than BSDI or even solaris x86.
Anyone care to comment?
- Thanks in advance!
Brad Block
Received on Sat May 11 1996 - 05:12:49 NZST