[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Mike Nicewonger]

My first sun box was an IPX, while I knew it was going to lag in performance
to many other x86 machines I found it to be quite a pleasure to run. I had
this machine with 128 MBs o'ram and OpenBSD 2.5. X was acceptable.

I later installed Red Hat 6.0 for SPARC on this box and found it to perform
poorly under X (fvwm) however command line was snappy enough.

Mike N

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 6:23 PM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC


>
>   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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