[Starkit] Re: Extraneous benchmark between Red Hat Lynux and Unix

[Arjen Markus]

"Eduardo Rodriguez (Gerencia de Desarrollo)" wrote:
> 
>  Hi everybody, I appreciate a lot your answers. I?m going to do another
> tests taking in account advices from JCW and the Larry?s one.
>  About the test that I did, it was did it in local filesystem, without any
> additional load over the servers which have the following basic
> characteristics:
> 
>  P4:
>   256 MB ram
>   1 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
> 
> Alpha Server:
>   1 Gb ram
>   2 alpha processors at 600 MHz each one.
> 
>   I?ll tell you whatever next test?s results that I?ll do it .
> 
>     Thanks a lot and Best Regards,
>       Eduardo.
> 

But the raw CPU speeds differ by a factor of 3 already - isn't that 
about the difference you saw? I'd say: look no further ;)

Regards,

Arjen