Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Problems with XSTONES calculations in xbench Keywords: X11, Graphics, Performance Message-ID: <12476@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 25 Aug 89 21:32:05 GMT References: <4344@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 41 Funny, I was about to post a couplea questions on xbench & xstones .. We've got an evaluation copy of an NCD-16 and I'm evaluating it against a VaxStation 2000 that is the average-to-low end workstation here. I just happen to have one in our office, see. My perception -- and I spent two full days using both and switching back and forth -- is that they are equal in speed. And the NCD is faster in some things. But maybe I'm not measuring the same sort of things with my eyes the benchmarks are. I'm looking at things like iconizing/deiconizing windows, window refreshes, and so forth. Then I run xbench and get (old is original calculations, new is with patches) Xstones: old new Vs2000 (unix:0) 27907 131994 Vs2000 (ether) 17301 101474 NCD-16 6657 12390 Anybody else measured these terminals? Get similar numbers? Have comments on xbench itself? Have I possibly made any mistakes? (I did follow the directions in the README ...) BTW, the textstone numbers are very close (15863 for Vs2000 & ether, 14549 for NCD-16) and is probably the basis for my opinion that they're fairly equal. Also I realize that the on-board processors are very different, the NCD only has a 68000, so I'm not *completely* surprised at the differences. Don't get me wrong. Performance comparable to a diskless sun3/50 at much less network load (no swapping over ether!) for 1/2 (at least) the price is a good deal in my book. Is anybody collecting Xstones numbers? -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- "So raise your right hand if you thought that was a Russian water tentacle."