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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4309 comp.os.linux.misc:31019 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!daemon.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...] Date: 04 Dec 1994 21:36:05 GMT Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <MICHAELV.94Dec4153605@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> References: <1994Nov28.194617.18912@system9.unisys.com> <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> <MICHAELV.94Nov29200545@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <D06sH3.6IM@info.swan.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mindbender.headcandy.iastate.edu In-reply-to: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk's message of Fri, 2 Dec 1994 14:05:27 GMT In article <D06sH3.6IM@info.swan.ac.uk> iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: In article <MICHAELV.94Nov29200545@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >Definitely. You're not really comparing the OS as much there, but >just waiting on the disk. I think you'd want at least 8MB RAM to test >the systems with... Actually a 4Mb machine benchmark is a good idea. It'll show you how efficient the system is and how well it pages. Having an 8Mb and 4Mb pair would I feel be highly instructive. Its not as if you have to pull RAM chips, you does tell the kernel mem=.... Well, I agree it would be informative to benchmark on a 4MB machine, as long as it wasn't your primary source of data. Ideally, running the entire suite on a 16MB machine to test the OS, and running a limited set of demanding ones on the 4MB machine to test paging and VM. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc. Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532 In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -