From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964807AbVHIOxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:53:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964808AbVHIOxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:53:24 -0400 Received: from van-1-67.lab.dnainternet.fi ([62.78.96.67]:20926 "EHLO mail.zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964807AbVHIOxX (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:53:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:53:23 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VGER news Message-ID: <20050809145323.GO22165@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: <20050809141217.GL22165@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20050809143924.GC28539@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050809143924.GC28539@harddisk-recovery.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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