[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:43:24PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> The _little_ benchmarking I did wasn't very scientific, but an SM41 
> (running Debian) was about 6x slower than a PPro 200 (running Debian) in 
> Povray. That doesn't really mean anything because we are talking 32bit 
> SPARC vs a P6. I might try to get Povray working on my U30 (250MHz), 
> Octane (175MHz), and a PC (depends, 300MHz up to 2x1500MHz) this week 
> and really test them to see what is faster.

>From what I've seen, a PPro 200 is about equivalent to a U1/200E in general
tasks, except for I/O (we had both machines setup as shell servers.  When
a billing person opened a 40M mail folder in Pine, the FreeBSD/PPro box
*stopped* for five or six secinds - while on the U1, we didnt even notice..
and yes, the PPro was all-SCSI..)

Bill

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bill bradford
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austin, texas