[Starkit] Re: Starkit Digest, Vol 18, Issue 2

[Gerald W. Lester]

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>   1. 	Extraneous benchmark between Red Hat Lynux and Unix Tru64
>      platforms (Eduardo Rodriguez (Gerencia de Desarrollo))
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:25:33 -0400
>From: "Eduardo Rodriguez (Gerencia de Desarrollo)"
>	<eduardo at bfi.com.cu>
>Subject: [Starkit] 	Extraneous benchmark between Red Hat Lynux and
>	Unix Tru64 platforms
>To: starkit at equi4.com
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> Hi everybody, I did a test consisted to update 10000 records on two Metakit 
>datafiles . The test was ran on two servers, a P4  with Lynux RedHat release 9 
>and on Alpha Server with Unix Tru64 V5.1. As result of running on both of 
>them the times executing were a big different, but to my surprise significantly 
>smaller on P4.
> Some data about environment on each platform:
>
>Linux:
>
>  Executable binary source: ActiveTcl/bin/tclsh8.4
>  info patchlevel : 8.4.7
>  package version Mk4tcl : 2.4.9.2       
>
>Tru64:
>
>  Executable binary source: tclkit
>  info patchlevel : 8.4.5
>  package version Mk4tcl : 2.4.9.2       
>
>Outputs to command ‘time test.tcl’
>
>Linux :
>real    3m19.413s
>user    3m19.070s
>sys     0m0.150s
>
>Tru64:
>real    9m48.80s
>user    9m48.43s
>sys     0m0.13s
>
>The tclkit module was configured with:
>
>/opt/build/gcc-3.3.2/configure --enable-nls --with-included-
>gettext --enable-shared --enable-threads --with-local-
>prefix=/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332 --prefix=/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332
>
>Having:
>
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/TWWfsw/gcc332/lib
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> Does anyone has been experimented something like that ?
>  
>
What was the speed of each of the CPUs?

How much memory was on each of the machines?

What type of disk I/O system (write speed, access speed)?

What was the load average at the time of the test?

What was the disk I/O usage at the time of the test?

Not being a C compile switch expert, was all of the code used on the 
True64 compiled as 64bit or was some it running in 32 bit compatibility 
mode?

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