br@wucs1.UUCP (Bill Ross) (02/23/88)
So, all you Sun 4 owners out there, how much juice is in a Sun 4/280?
Sun claims that the machine is rated at 10 MIPS although I have heard
that this is somewhat inflated. I'm looking to buy some of these beasties
to replace my old flock of VAX 750's. I can run about 15 users doing
C compiles, nroff, macsyma, spice, ctrlc &etc on a 750 before it gets
unbearably slow. While the 750 is only rated at about 1 MIP because
of I/O considerations there is no way I can just scale this up to
arrive at a figure of 150 users on a 4/280. What is a good figure?
How many users do you support on your machine (25? 30?) and what type
of jobs are they running? Any and all insights welcome.
BR
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Bill Ross Washington University ECL, St. Louis 314-889-5894
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