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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!shellx.best.com!shellx.best.com!not-for-mail From: rcarter@shellx.best.com (Russell Carter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 30 Jan 1996 22:19:52 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4en1m8$p8t@shellx.best.com> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4eenvh$kad@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <4ehmqd$6q5@cynic.portal.ca> <bryDLyLoM.62D@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2117 comp.unix.solaris:58381 In article <bryDLyLoM.62D@netcom.com>, Bryan Althaus <bry@netcom.com> wrote: >Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote: >: In article <4eenvh$kad@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, >: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: >: > >: >I just got back from USENIX, where Larry McVoy talked about his lmbench >: >results on several platforms, including the UltraSPARC. The numbers looked >: >"ok", but not really all that dashing. > >: I suppose it depends on how you define good. Sun Marketing says >: that a two-processor Ultra-SPARC competes well with a single-processor >: DEC Alpha. :-) > >You have to compare apples to apples. A two-processor Ultra-Sparc? Which >chip speed???? What DEC Alpha chip speed, they go up over 300Mhz. > >Comparing a 167Mhz or 200Mhz UltraSparc to a 300 Mhz chip is not a fair comparison. Uhm,... what compute tasks were you were comparing? 8-) Maybe somebody ought to settle on a workload first... Or "test" in the more specific instance... Otherwise, I don't know quite what to make of this discussion :-) Cheers, Russell