Our scheduled downtime came a little early.  We had a bit of a snowstorm
last night (11 inches) and about 10:30 this morning the power went
out.  The UPS kept the system up until about 11:30, at which point it was
powered down cleanly by the UPS monitor, and I took it apart to do the
upgrade.  (This machine's name is "firebird", by the way.) 

Took about an hour and we're now running on an AMD K6-2 (Pentium-II class)
400 MHz processor and 64M of SDRAM.  No hitches at all so far.  Just
recompiled the kernel for Pentium optimization in under ten minutes
without hardly bumping the system load... the 486 took nearly half an hour
to compile and thrashed the system pretty good.  Interesting point is that
the CPU was 98% idle during the compile, indicating to me that the disk
has really become our biggest bottleneck.

Find me an UDMA ATA-66 drive for this box and I'll be a happy camper.  

--
Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net)
No sense being pessimistic.  It wouldn't work anyway.

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