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From: john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul)
Subject: Re: Here is a tiny OS benchmark
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lusol@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu writes:

}Why does one DEC 5000 have a DPS speed of 35 and another of 45..??? 
}The DPS rate has 1 second granularity, that's why.

   Only 35 vs 45 is a 3 second difference (14 vs 11).

}So, although the CDC 4680 usually
}gives 62 DPS because it runs in 8 seconds, sometimes I get 71 DPS for a 7
}second run!

   As for why, my DS2100/DS5000 numbers were higher than the other
posters, I really don't know.  My load averages were probably
right near 0 (not while it was running!), and the machines have 12
and 24 MB respectively.  Must be the DECwindows (we use Motif/X11R4) ;-)

John

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