Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wucs1!br
From: br@wucs1.UUCP (Bill Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Sun 4/280 power?
Message-ID: <755@wucs1.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 02:31:40 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
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So, all you Sun 4 owners out there, how much juice is in a Sun 4/280?
Sun claims that the machine is rated at 10 MIPS although I have heard
that this is somewhat inflated.  I'm looking to buy some of these beasties
to replace my old flock of VAX 750's.  I can run about 15 users doing
C compiles, nroff, macsyma, spice, ctrlc &etc on a 750 before it gets
unbearably slow.  While the 750 is only rated at about 1 MIP because
of I/O considerations there is no way I can just scale this up to
arrive at a figure of 150 users on a 4/280.  What is a good figure?
How many users do you support on your machine (25? 30?) and what type
of jobs are they running?  Any and all insights welcome.

BR

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Bill Ross 	Washington University ECL,  St. Louis 314-889-5894
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