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To: Goutam who wrote (74747)	10/9/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1572946

Re: Single CPU server benchmarks Goutama, Great piece of information on K6 server performance. But performance is only part of the story. I have a project that uses a K6-3 to run the full back office suite, including SQL Server 7 and IIS. It's also an active file server (though for fewer than 20 users). This system was originally ordered to run as a small Linux SMB server, we used it to prototype Back Office (this isn't the hardware you'd conventionally select for an intense NT server app - doesn't cost enough!). The system was so solid we just left it on the K6. It is the most stable NT server I've ever seen. It's never blue-screened, ever. And has gone over 2 months between reboots (with NT, as we all know, reboots are necessary with many installs). The motherboard is Asus P5A, disk is Adaptec 2940UW with 2 IBM ultrastar 18 gig drives. Network is 3Com 10/100 server card. NT is SP5. The speed is just a bonus, it's the stability of the K6-III in server apps that most impresses me. Dan

To: Goutam who wrote (74747)	10/10/1999 11:10:00 AM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 1572946

Goutama: Re: Server benchmarks and the performance of the K6-III. The K6-III has a couple things going for it in a server environment. First of all is the 3 levels of cache. This is very effective in the server segment. The other big advantage the K6-III has over the other CPUs is it's shallow (yes you read that correctly) pipeline. The shallow pipeline makes the mispredictions 'cheap' and the typical server environment is very branch heavy, so the K6-III really does well. Steve PS. K6-III's rock for uniprocessor SQL Server.