How about a Dual Celeron ?

[Nick]

I was wondering what, you guys, think the performance of IIS 5 would be on a
Dual Celeron 400 with 128 MB RAM and a 8.5ms, 7200 RPM , 18GB HDD? I am very
concerned !

[Egbert Nierop]

Depends
If your website is huge thus contains much data your system will be good
enough because you have a fast hd.

Otherwise the cache system for the Celeron was not designed to work on a
server. It was made for client apps like games and texteditors.

Explain: A server app runs so much more code in different ways that the L1
cache (and the missing l2 cache) will cause your code running some 2 to 3
slower than a pentium II or even 4 times slower than a pentium XEON

I think general your webserver will be cheaper than a PII 600 but it will be
even fast as a dual celeron 400

"Nick" <nd...@ic.ac.uk> wrote in message
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[cybermonk]

(and the missing l2 cache) Most celerons come with 128k of L2 cache on the
die. If you check out SMP Smackdown on www.arstechnica.com you will find
some interesting results.
cybermonk

[Tom A]

There are several things to keep in mind when pondering this. First,
Celerons are not designed to run as dual processors. To my understanding,
Intel purposely did this to prevent website operators from persuing cheap
alternatives (though this is merely rumor). However, there is a
work-around. You must get the two processors from the same lot when you
order them... it would probably work best to order from an independent
reseller and specifically mention that you plan to run them together. Any
reputable seller will not what you are talking about.

Second, Winnt Server 4 defaults to only use 256 L2 cache (no matter what the
processor). The registry must be physically edited to maximize performance.
Go to regedit.com to for steps on how to do this.

SO... my answer is, if Windows 2000 Server automatically recognizes the size
of your L2 cache then your chips will run about the same as older NT 4
Servers. LOL.

Also, don't forget that you can easily overclock Celerons to meet
performance needs. A Celeron 300A will run (not install) NT server 4 at
463Mhz without problems. I know because I have done it.