Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!rtech!llama!daveb From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (It takes a clear mind to make it) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Benchmarks of 68020's vs Vax's under load Message-ID: <2133@rtech.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 04:21:29 GMT References: <603@modular.UUCP> Sender: news@rtech.UUCP Reply-To: daveb@rtech.UUCP (It takes a clear mind to make it) Distribution: comp Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA Lines: 18 In article <603@modular.UUCP> olson@modular.UUCP (Jon Olson) writes: > >I decided to test out some of the theories on the NET about >Vax's being better at handling alot of jobs and high user loads. >The benchmarks below show the elapsed time required for 8 >simultaneous optimized compiles of a 3783 line C program on >each machine, with no other jobs currently running. Here are >some stats on the machines with the following configurations: > > 1) Vax 11/780, 8Mb memory, VMS V4.6, VAX-C V2.4 > 2) MicroVax, 9Mb memory, Ultrix V2.0, Unix PCC compiler > 3) Sun 3/60, 20Mhz 68020, 8 Mb memory, SUNOS V3.4 A more interesting version of this would run 1 2 4 6 8 12 16 20 users or so, allowing a graph of results by load. Any volunteers? -dB {amdahl, cpsc6a, mtxinu, sun, hoptoad}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.uucp