Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks: RS6000 v. SS-1+

[Udo Klimaschewski]

>From article <1991Jan30.003004.74 at intek01.uucp>, by mark at intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins):
> Any comments on this from RS6000 users?  Thanks in advance.

Yupp. I agree.
This damned 530 here is a real good number-cruncher.
Ray tracing is fun - but never NEVER let anybody else use this beast
while you are using e.g. vi. You have to wait 20 secs for a response.
As long as theres no IO, its's quite ok, though.
Apart from the bugs :-)

I have this one in 'w' since some weeks, dunno why:

udo at trash<31>w
  5:17am    %d day%s,   4:537126188,  6 hr|.&8,  Runable processes: 4

Usertty      login@      idle       JCPU      PCPU      what what
root     hft/0      Di7pm       6:12        45         1 -ksh
michaelv pts/2     2:22pm       7:33        18         1 -csh
udo      pts/3      Mo2pm         30         0         0 -
udo      pts/0     3:51am          0         0         0 -

As you can see, it's 5am - and I fought against that rubbish X-server
the whole night - sigh.

Buy a sparc ...

regards
	udo

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