Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:03:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joerg Czeranski <jc@joerch.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: relative alpha speed Message-ID: <199909011503.RAA07208@zaphod.in.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011034110.369-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > I have just begin to compare my dual 333 MHz PII system against my > PC164SX system. I haven't any rela confidence yet that I've got the new > PC164SX correctly set up (particularly, I am not certain about the way I > have my RAM installed), but in timing and comparing makes of buildworld > and of the kernel, the 333 MHZ PII seems to be beating the 533MHz Alpha > by nearly 2:1. That seems right, for integer stuff my AlphaPC164 500MHz (21164A, yours is a 21164PC) is ~25% slower than a single PII-400. Make should scale well to two processors, so the dual-PII should be about twice as fast as a 533MHz 21164PC. (N.b.: 21164 is 96/97's technology) > I did the testing before and after I activated softupdates on the alpha, > and I was very surprised to note that I saw about a 5 percent slowdown > when using softupdates. > > Are these experiences what I should have expected, or should I take this > as clear evidence that I have something misconfigured? I don't know anything about the FreeBSD specifics. joerch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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