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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Benchmark results
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Date: 21 Jan 1995 00:40:02 UTC
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I picked up a benchmark off garbo and I wonder if its results make sense
and how these results compare to what might be expected.

My motherboard is a 486DX2-66 with an AMI BIOS and 3 VLB slots. Apart
from that, I don't know much about it. I gave it 128K of cache. The
benchmark is called 'config.exe', and it's from Germany.

It says that the 1st level cache has a throughput of 60MB/sec, the 2nd
level 30 MB/sec and main memory just under 10MB/sec. The same benchmark
says my SCSI disk (off an Adaptec 2842) gets about 1MB/sec

How does this compare? To my eyes it almost looks too compressed. That
is, the ratio between adjacent numbers looks too small.

I get _phenominal_ looking X performance on it... If I blink, I'd miss
the refresh process that takes place as xlock dies... I can do opaque
window drags like my Suns can do non-opaque ones... kernel compiles do
seem to take forever, though - about 35 mins.

ObBSD: Has anyone attempted to get/run SPECint or SPECfp on a FreeBSD
box? If the source is publicly available, I may just give it a whack,
just for fun. Same question for Xstone.

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