Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Workstation Disk I/O Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 90 21:52:10 GMT References: <14900016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <2387@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 19 In-reply-to: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 5 Oct 90 16:01:16 GMT In article <2387@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes: ... The thing I found interesting was Sun's variable size disk cashe really skewed the results of the benchmark. The diskless Sparcstation outpreformed the Vaxstation, the Apollo, and the Mac. If the benchmark truly represents what "really goes on in systems" this suggests that the disk cache design was very clever and useful; not that the results are "skewed". The $64K question is always, does the benchmark reflect real system loads. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043