From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964791AbVHIOj3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:39:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964793AbVHIOj3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:39:29 -0400 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:27431 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964791AbVHIOj2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:39:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:39:24 +0200 From: Erik Mouw To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Matti Aarnio , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VGER news Message-ID: <20050809143924.GC28539@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20050809141217.GL22165@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > 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. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands