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From: kenr@cruise.cc.rochester.edu (Kenneth C. Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Help: DB-oriented cpu benchmarks?
Summary: wanted, performance data relevant to DB performance
Keywords: IO, MIPS, CPU performance
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Date: 29 Apr 91 14:23:06 GMT
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Someone just handed me the MFLOPS ratings for a big list of machines.
What we'd really like is something like a
mixed IO and MIPS rating or benchmark for a big list of machines.
Or any database-oriented benchmark.
With a focus on boxes running Unix, 
but other OSs are of interest too, even single user.
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-ken rich                 -=!=-                 kenr@cc.rochester.edu