vfork() (was Re: RS6000 questions/comments)

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <19439 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>As I recall a S/6000 Model 530 produced about 8 or 10
>fork/exits per second, compared to about 45 per second on an Mpulse/XL
>that I was testing for my employer in 1986 (Pinnacle Systems, Inc.,
>Garland TX)
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>I tried it on the 386 here and got 68 per second.  What does your
>S/6000 give you?

Kithrup, a 25MHz '386 running SCO UNIX 3.2v2, got 82.981 fork/exit's per
second.  The RS/6000 at work (I don't know what model, sorry, nor even how
to find that out 8-)), got 153.02 fork/exit's per second.

That's a bit bettern than 8 or 10 per second, I'd say.

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