Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Unix on Vax 8600? Message-ID: <8410@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 17:29:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8410 Posted: Sat Jun 22 17:29:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 04:05:42 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 29 From: Ken Mandelberg Does anyone have any performance information about running Unix (presumably Ultrix) on a Vax 8600? Right now we run about 30 users each on two 780s runing BSD. Would 60 users run better on one 8600. The users are students and faculty mostly in an edit/compile cycle, with a smaller number doing nroff/troff and running some statistical packages. On the surface, the 8600 would seem like a win. DEC rates it at about 4 780s. However, this is presumably a VMS comparision, and it is not clear to me if it still holds true for Unix. Can you think of any circumstances where the two 780s would outperform the 8600? Ken Mandelberg Emory University Dept of Math and CS Atlanta, Ga 30322 {akgua,sb1,gatech,decvax}!emory!km USENET km@emory CSNET km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANET