Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site arizona.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!utah-cs!arizona!whm From: whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Gould UNIX systems Message-ID: <16203@arizona.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 20:41:06 EDT Article-I.D.: arizona.16203 Posted: Thu Oct 4 20:41:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 02:31:02 EDT Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 62 Several weeks ago I posted a short note giving some personal observations about Gould UNIX systems. Since then, I've had an opportunity to do some very brief and informal (about two hours worth) testing on a 32/97 and I thought I'd give a quick report of what I found. I should say that since there seems to be ample evidence that the Gould processors run as fast as Gould claims on a wide variety of applications, my main interest was in finding anomalous data points. Unfortunately, the dial-in line on the 32/97 I was using was extremely noisy and I was able to transfer only some very short test programs to the 97. Because of this, the bulk of my testing was done via standard programs. The Gould system was a single processor 32/97 with 4M of physical memory running Gould's "baseline 8.1" which is a 4.1c more or less. The tests were also run on a Vax-11/780 with 4M of physical memory running 4.2. I was on the only person on the 97; the Vax tests were run with a few other users on. In no particular order, here are some results that are representative of what I found: (Times are in seconds and are averaged over several runs.) nroff /usr/dict/words 97: 31.6 user/ .8 system Vax: 140.2 user/ 5.0 system dd if=x of=y ibs=1 (where x is a 50kbyte file) 97: 1.1 user/ 19.0 system Vax: 7.3 user/ 62.2 system gdata 10000 | cat | cat | cat >/dev/null (gdata 10000 generates 10000 50-character lines) 97: 3.0 user/ 1.6 system Vax: 6.1 user/ 1.7 system fork 1000 (Does 1000 fork and waits of a child that dies first thing.) 97: .4 user/ 32.1 system Vax: 2.2 user/ 33.5 system ex