From: kender@esu.edu (Daniel Garcia) Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? Date: 23 Sep 1993 06:17:48 GMT
Slaving away in a dark room, steve@interaccess.com (Steve Norton) produced:
>Well, here at the office, we've had 4 machines: One 386-40, 8 MB of
>RAM, one 486-66, 16 MB of RAM, one Sparc-10 with 64 MB of RAM and
>one Sparc-2 with 32 MB of RAM.
>
>
>The 486-66 ($3000) runs 10-25% faster than the Sparc-2 ($7000) for CPU
>intensive activities (compiling, crunching numbers, Xlife, etc.) For I/O
>things (xli on Xwindows) it completely blows the Sparc-2 away.
>
Ok, quick question about the I/O. On the sparcs, are the drives local?
Or are they mounted through NFS? (Some sites mount local drives through
NFS for some reason, don't ask me why). NFS is MUCH slower than direct
access. Also, what OS is being run? We had Sparc classics at work running
Solaris 2.2 (*PUKE*) - when one of the guys there got SunOS 4.1.3 up
and running on the classic the difference in performace was unbelievable.
I would almost dare say twice as fast, though that might be overly
optimistic, but there was a VERY noticable difference.
>Now, I'm kind of biased. I personally believe Sparcs are junk, and that
>a 40Mhz motherboard with a 386 is just as good as a 40Mhz Sparc motherboard.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say Sun's are better (I happen to
like a linux machine better than a sun if only for no other reason than
the fact that the OS is free, and the hardware is cheaper), just to point
out some reasons for these numbers.
D
note: Just as an aside, X runs GREAT on my roommate's 486/33 w 8megs.
(I don't own my own machine... :( - but i do have a terminal
hooked up to the serial port, which i'm using now while he works
on C++ ;) - it runs faster than the DECstation 2100's at school,
and some of the SPARC's that we had at work.
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