Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!burdell!juan From: juan@burdell.gatech.edu (Juan Orlandini) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: More issues of benchmarking Message-ID: <515@mephisto.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 02:57:07 GMT References: <19040001@orac.HP.COM> <4344@awdprime.UUCP> <9516@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <513@mephisto.edu> Sender: news@gatech.edu Reply-To: juan@cc.gatech.edu (Juan Orlandini) Organization: ICS Lab Lines: 37 In article <513@mephisto.edu> juan@cc.gatech.edu (Juan Orlandini) writes: |In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: |>In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: |> |>| >Wasting more bandwidth on a trivial benchmark. |>| >Running my Sparcstation SLC on |>| > echo 2^5000/2^5000 | /bin/time bc |>| >yielded |>| > 44.5 real 43.4 user 0.1 sys |>| |>| That's about (45.9) what it yields on a 3/50. I suspect that this |>| isn't a very good benchmark :-). |> |>On a DECstation 2100, you get: |> |> 13.4 real 12.6 user 0.2 sys | |On my sparcstation 1 I got: | 16.0 real 15.2 user 0.1 sys | |I think something is amiss with Jon's machine. | |Juan an as an addendum, on the one SLC we have in the department: 15.4 real 15.1 user 0.1 sys Something is definetly(sp?) wrong with Jon's machine. Juan ======================================================================= Juan Orlandini /// "Whe have not inherited this /// Super User At Large /// earth from our parents, but /// College of Computing \\\/// rather borrowed it from our \\\/// juan@cc.gatech.edu \XX/ children." -- Unknown \XX/ =======================================================================