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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!bry From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Message-ID: <bryDLyLoM.62D@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4dcruo$5eq@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <4deb4a$41o@durban.vector.co.za> <4eenvh$kad@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <4ehmqd$6q5@cynic.portal.ca> Distribution: inet Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:17:10 GMT Lines: 16 Sender: bry@netcom17.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2168 comp.unix.solaris:58989 Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote: : In article <4eenvh$kad@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, : Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: : > : >I just got back from USENIX, where Larry McVoy talked about his lmbench : >results on several platforms, including the UltraSPARC. The numbers looked : >"ok", but not really all that dashing. : I suppose it depends on how you define good. Sun Marketing says : that a two-processor Ultra-SPARC competes well with a single-processor : DEC Alpha. :-) You have to compare apples to apples. A two-processor Ultra-Sparc? Which chip speed???? What DEC Alpha chip speed, they go up over 300Mhz. Comparing a 167Mhz or 200Mhz UltraSparc to a 300 Mhz chip is not a fair comparison.