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1. RE: [GENERAL] Performance

   Jackson, DeJuan <djackson@cpsgroup.com> — 1999-03-30T18:49:06Z

   I'd like to see that URL. :)
   	-DEJ
   
   > -----Original Message-----
   > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
   > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:43 PM
   > To: Dustin Sallings
   > Cc: Jason; 'psql'; Aaron Holtz (E-mail)
   > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Performance
   > 
   > 
   > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Dustin Sallings wrote:
   > 
   > > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
   > > 
   > > # Using the rc5 client as a 'benchmark' (what else has 
   > programmers working
   > > # hard to optimize their code to get the best numbers on 
   > it?), we found
   > > # that when comparing a Dual-PII 450 against an Sparc 
   > E450/400Mhz, the
   > > # E450 came in at ~30% less powerful then the Dual-PII ... 
   > > 
   > > 	That's a *horrible* benchmark.  How often do your servers sit
   > > around doing math inside of cache?  This isn't raytracing.
   > 
   > 	My servers do more math inside of cache then they do 
   > raytracing...
   > :)
   > 
   > 	Anyway, regardless...for the price of that one Sparc E450 we
   > picked up, I could pick up *easily* a dozen Dual-PII 450 
   > servers, and run
   > something like Beowulf on it to do the raytracing...
   > 
   > 	Wait, isn't that what IBM just did?  Built a Beowulf cluster of
   > Netfnity servers for ~$150k, that outperformed a $5.5Million 
   > Cray?  And, I
   > *thought* they did something like raytracing with it...I 
   > can't remmeber
   > the full article, but it was ... enlightening.  If you want me to dig
   > aruond and find the URL to it, please ask...
   > 
   > > 	It's nicknamed ``Slowaris'' for the same reason FreeBSD is
   > > nicknamed, ``FleaBeastie'' and Linux is nicknamed 
   > ``Linsux'' and HP-UX is
   > > nicknamed ``HP-SUX'' etc...
   > > 
   > 
   > 	Welp, I've been educated today then...I didn't know FreeBSD or
   > Linux had nicknames :)
   > 
   > 
   > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               
   > IRC Nick: Scrappy
   > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
   > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: 
   > scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
   > 
   > 
   
   

2. RE: [GENERAL] Performance

   Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1999-03-30T19:20:43Z

   http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm
   
   On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jackson, DeJuan wrote:
   
   > I'd like to see that URL. :)
   > 	-DEJ
   > 
   > > -----Original Message-----
   > > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
   > > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:43 PM
   > > To: Dustin Sallings
   > > Cc: Jason; 'psql'; Aaron Holtz (E-mail)
   > > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Performance
   > > 
   > > 
   > > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Dustin Sallings wrote:
   > > 
   > > > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
   > > > 
   > > > # Using the rc5 client as a 'benchmark' (what else has 
   > > programmers working
   > > > # hard to optimize their code to get the best numbers on 
   > > it?), we found
   > > > # that when comparing a Dual-PII 450 against an Sparc 
   > > E450/400Mhz, the
   > > > # E450 came in at ~30% less powerful then the Dual-PII ... 
   > > > 
   > > > 	That's a *horrible* benchmark.  How often do your servers sit
   > > > around doing math inside of cache?  This isn't raytracing.
   > > 
   > > 	My servers do more math inside of cache then they do 
   > > raytracing...
   > > :)
   > > 
   > > 	Anyway, regardless...for the price of that one Sparc E450 we
   > > picked up, I could pick up *easily* a dozen Dual-PII 450 
   > > servers, and run
   > > something like Beowulf on it to do the raytracing...
   > > 
   > > 	Wait, isn't that what IBM just did?  Built a Beowulf cluster of
   > > Netfnity servers for ~$150k, that outperformed a $5.5Million 
   > > Cray?  And, I
   > > *thought* they did something like raytracing with it...I 
   > > can't remmeber
   > > the full article, but it was ... enlightening.  If you want me to dig
   > > aruond and find the URL to it, please ask...
   > > 
   > > > 	It's nicknamed ``Slowaris'' for the same reason FreeBSD is
   > > > nicknamed, ``FleaBeastie'' and Linux is nicknamed 
   > > ``Linsux'' and HP-UX is
   > > > nicknamed ``HP-SUX'' etc...
   > > > 
   > > 
   > > 	Welp, I've been educated today then...I didn't know FreeBSD or
   > > Linux had nicknames :)
   > > 
   > > 
   > > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               
   > > IRC Nick: Scrappy
   > > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
   > > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: 
   > > scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
   > > 
   > > 
   > 
   
   Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
   Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
   primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
   
   
   

3. Re: [GENERAL] Performance

   Michael Simms <grim@argh.demon.co.uk> — 1999-03-30T21:21:09Z

   > 
   > I'd like to see that URL. :)
   > 	-DEJ
   > 
   
   It will be in the /. archives
   
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