[rescue] SS10/SM51 not as lame as you think...

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366" <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> So I decided to run some real-world tests: x86 vs. Sparc SM51.
> 
> x86: OpenBSD 3.0, AMD K6-2 450Mhz, 100MHZ PC100 RAM
> SPARC: OpenBSD 3.1, SM51 (50Mhz w 1MB cache), SS10 70 or 60ns RAM
> (there is not much difference between the 2 revs of the OSes)

<snip>

> Speed difference: up to 3x slower
>  
> Now we convert the PS to PDF:
> x86:
> time ps2pdf s.ps s.pdf
>     1.48s real     0.68s user     0.17s system
>     0.76s real     0.63s user     0.12s system
> 
> SPARC:
>     2.75s real     1.84s user     0.35s system
>     2.18s real     1.85s user     0.30s system
> 
> Speed difference:  again, about 3x
> 
> I was somewhat impressed, in that the SM51 appears to operate at a
> level somewhere around that of a P150 to PPro180 proc.

<snip>

> I was impressed at how interactivity did not suffer too much in spite
> of the disk being constantly thrashed and CPU idle %age at 0 .
> 
> Once I get the big reports running through the system I will run the
> tests again and post them back to the list, if there is interest...

Yes, there is interest - thanks for posting this...

Lionel

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Lionel

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