From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 8:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E13151F1 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22927.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.217]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA17808; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:38:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 1105s7-0000JH-00; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:09:03 -0400 To: Claude Buisson Cc: Arcady Genkin , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 References: From: Arcady Genkin Date: 02 Jul 1999 12:09:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: Claude Buisson's message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 17:16:50 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: <87so77xcdc.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Claude Buisson writes: > > I'm not sure if it made to the list the last time, so I'll repost > > benchmark results for that machine -- can you guys have a look and > > tell me where the things are slower than they shoud be for an i486 DX4 > > with 16M of RAM? > > > > BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11) > > System -- door.wgaf.net > > Start Benchmark Run: Thu Jul 1 07:32:18 EST 1999 > > 3 interactive users. > > Dhrystone 2 without register variables 4713.8 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > > Dhrystone 2 using register variables 6390.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > > I have an old (Bull) Zenith with an i486 DX4 and 16M running 3.1-RELEASE: > The bytebench from the port collection gives: > > BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11) > System -- cerbere.di.framatome.fr > Start Benchmark Run: Fri 2 Jul 15:45:14 CEST 1999 > 1 interactive users. > Dhrystone 2 without register variables 55715.0 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Dhrystone 2 using register variables 55680.4 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) [snip] > which is VERY different from your results. Please forgive my ignorance... just to make sure... Your computer appears to be bout 10 times *faster*, right? Thanks a lot for posting these results, for your configuration is just plain the same with mine! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message