From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 3 18:19:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A9D14C40 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:19:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com) Received: from ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (ariadne [157.147.227.36]) by bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA21759; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:19:25 +0800 (WST) Received: from ariadne by ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA26249; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:19:24 +0800 Message-Id: <199903040219.KAA26249@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: shocking@bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com Subject: Re: Panic in FFS/4.0 as of yesterday - update In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 08:13:39 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 10:19:24 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > MUSBUS is now quite old - I believe it was developed around 1981. I > have a paper Ken McDonell presented at AUUG'91 when he discussed some > of its shortcomings at that time [and there are probably more now]. > > I've also heard him state (possibly during that presentation) that > MUSBUS was designed to benchmark systems around 1 MIPS (ie a VAX > 11/780), and results obtained on a `current' (ie 5-10 years old now) > system probably reflect bottlenecks in MUSBUS, rather than the system > under test. > Yeah - remember porting this beast to Microport V.2, back on an old 286. Needed some explicit (char *) casts as I recall (sizeof int != sizeof ptr). Now with the 64 bit CPUs, we're seeing those problems again... Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message