jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) (10/15/85)
Does anyone have a set of benchmarks for the new Sun-3 yet? I'm aware of the Spanier paper which claims roughly twice a uVAX II in raw cpu, but that paper has enough problems (ambiguities, inconsistencies, and suboptimal choices of non-SMI configurations) that I am quite suspicious of its results. What I'm looking for is a set of benchmarks, including raw data and programs, that purport to measure system throughput in a typical multiuser Unix setting. I would be particularly interested in seeing the Sun-3 with SMD/Eagle disk and 4 or 8MB memory compared to a uVAX II with Emulex (or SI)/Eagle disk and 5 or 9MB memory. I am less interested in raw cpu benchmarks, but I would be interested in benchmarks of particular components of general system throughput. As is customary, if people reply to me directly I'll summarize any interesting responses.
meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner) (10/18/85)
In article <1171@cornell.UUCP> jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) writes: > >What I'm looking for is a set of benchmarks, including raw data and programs, >that purport to measure system throughput in a typical multiuser Unix >setting. I would be particularly interested in seeing the Sun-3 with >SMD/Eagle disk and 4 or 8MB memory compared to a uVAX II with Emulex (or >SI)/Eagle disk and 5 or 9MB memory. I am less interested in raw cpu >benchmarks, but I would be interested in benchmarks of particular components >of general system throughput. > I recently came across one of the better UNIX benchmarks, in helping an OEM with a bid for the federal court system. I don't know whether the benchmarks are the property of the government or not, but they seemed rather thorough. They were for System V (as opposed to 4.2). Things tested include: CPU speed (whetstone and dhrystone) performance of the disk (creating a 100M file and doing random I/O) performance of the terminals (whether multiple terminals could simultaneously output 9600 baud) performance of nroff Paging performance Multiuser performance (various of the above things at the same time)