On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:41 -0800, Norm wrote: > James Wilkinson wrote: > > Norm wrote: > > > > > >> I have not been able to determine what vintage the processor in my old > >> box is but with a 735 clock speed we can assume it is old. > >> > > > > With a 733(ish) processor speed, it was either a Pentium III on a 133 > > MHz motherboard or a Celeron on a 66 MHz motherboard. You can check by > > running > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > The 733 MHz Pentium III was released in autumn 1999, the 733 Celeron in > > autumn 2000. > > > > If I remember correctly, the 733 MHz Pentium III would have become > > obsolete in mid 2001, and the Celeron maybe six months later. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > James. > > > > > Thanks James, before I emailed the list I checked cpuinfo, the > information is not as clear as I had hoped. My guess is I am running > close to the absolute usable minimum hardware set up which is older than > he one in question and the issues involved are more than a generic P3 > FC6 issue below is the information from my cpuinfo file. I suspect that > the box has its last FC upgrade and is nearing the end of its usable > life as a test box (I might be able to extend its life a bnit if I can > find some more RAM but the box is not worth spending any money on), even > distros like Ubuntu don't run well on it, but at the price I paid for it > I can't complain. > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : CentaurHauls > cpu family : 6 > model : 7 > model name : VIA Ezra > stepping : 10 > cpu MHz : 735.020 > cache size : 64 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow up > bogomips : 1470.81 > Here is what I have and I am running FC6. [lesh@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : Celeron (Mendocino) stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 467.737 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr up bogomips : 936.11 This was a straight install of the i386, later I upgraded the kernel with instructions from this mailing list to the 686version. Not too much difference in performance. My disk is pretty small (<30G) and everything fits including quite large user file space (>20G mostly text and photos). Regards, Les H
