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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:9102 comp.os.linux:54770 comp.os.386bsd.misc:994 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!pagesat!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mucs!m1!qinyi From: qinyi@cs.man.ac.uk (Yi Qin (BCW PhD)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Message-ID: <QINYI.93Sep14111941@r6i.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 14 Sep 93 10:19:41 GMT References: <1993Sep02.184251.23903@engr.engr.uark.edu> <2C8E9252.3016@news.service.uci.edu> <michaelv.747547179@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1993Sep12.235912.32501@unixland.ci.net> <1993Sep13.084852.1164@black.ox.ac.uk> <1993Sep13.121546.19533@taylor.uucp> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Lines: 16 In-reply-to: mark@taylor.uucp's message of 13 Sep 93 12:15:46 GMT Are we missing anything here when talking about performance? Besides the factors of CPU speed, local bus and memory size, the performance is also very much dependent on the memory access patterns in the benchmark/application programs. Unless we use the same code to test different machines, the result would not hold in every sense. That's often the trick played by the dealers and manufacturers, I believe. So you guys may pass on the test programs to each other and run it on different machines. Then the result may tell you a bit more. Yi Qin Oxford UK