[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Dave McGuire]

  That explains it.  I know I'm treading on thin ice here...and let me
state that, while I primarily am a BSD hack, I do have several Linux
boxes and I love them all dearly...but many people have found that
Linux performs a bit poorly on sun4c-architecture machines
(sparcstation1, 1+, 2, IPC, IPX, SLC, ELC).  For much, much better
than 486/anything performance from an IPX, I'd suggest moving to one
of the BSDs...NetBSD or OpenBSD will run fine on the IPX.

  I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm not an anti-Linux person,
blah blah blah...I've just run a *lot* of hardware in a lot of
different places and I've seen big differences in performance.  Linux
is famous for wringing amazing amounts of performance out of even the
lowest-end Intel box...this is not so on smaller sparcstations.

         -Dave McGuire

On July 6, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> Both machines (IPX and dx2 - by the way, Cyrix, not Intel) are running Red
> Hat 6.2.  The SPARC IPX on 2.2.16-3, the dx2 on 2.2.14.
> 
> The IPX is DOG SLOW running a windows manager.  It is much faster to run
> Netscape, for example, by sending the output over to my NT workstation.
> Given network bandwidth, one would think that the network would be the
> bottleneck - but this is not the case.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:35 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> 
> 
> 
>   Wow...what OS was this IPX running?  I've always had to get well up
> into the mid-range Pentium family before a PeeCee would perceptibly
> outperform an IPX...*especially* in graphics performance...I've
> always run either SunOS4 or NetBSD/sparc on them.
> 
>           -Dave McGuire
> 
> On July 6, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> > A SPARCstation IPX running with the PowerUp CPU (40 to 80Mhz) upgrade is
> not
> > quite as fast as an Intel 486dx2 50Mhz running Linux 6.2.  However, some
> of
> > the perceived speed difference may be that the IPX appears to have much
> > slower graphics (X-based GUI) than the Intel box.
> > 
> > All of the above is 'seat of the pants' estimates.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris Gnther [mailto:madram at video.de]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:16 AM
> > To: MailingList SUN Help
> > Subject: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > some of you propably do know me and my "little" problem with my SUN IPC.
> > Now - after 6 weeks of consequentely trying to get it work and failling
> > miserably - I come to a point where I'd like to know what exactly I could
> > do with it would ever get it to work.
> > 
> > So my question is:
> > 
> >     How fast or strong is a SUN IPC?
> > 
> > My configuration is as follows:
> > - SUN IPC with WEITEK-Chip
> > - all 12 RAM Banks filled (still don't know how much RAM this is) 
> > - 2GB IBM HDD
> > - a second Framebuffer card
> > - an ISDN-card 
> > - and two 16" SUN-Monitors
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what exactly I can do with it.
> > 
> > To give you a point on what I normally do with my PC running SOL8:
> > - writing with LaTeX2e
> > - Database-Developing with mySQL (runs on my Server)
> > - C and C++ programming
> > 
> > 
> >     thanks in advance,
> > 
> >         chris
> > 
> > +---------------------------------+
> > |             chris               |
> > | ------------------------------- |
> > |  database design & programming  |
> > |   agentur fiedler / video.de    |
> > |                                 |
> > |                 madram at video.de |
> > +---------------------------------+ 
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