[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Fleet Captain Druaga]

Actually I can easily agree with this.  Linux is _not_ optimized for Sparc.
NetBSD runs incredibly faster than any Linux distro I could possibly load on
the lower end Sparc boxes.  YMMV but I've personally seen it on IPC, IPX,
and Sparc 2.

Sincerely,

Mike Hebel

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> >Behalf Of Dave McGuire
> >Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:23 PM
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: RE: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> >
> >
> >
> >  That explains it.  I know I'm treading on thin ice here...and let me
> >state that, while I primarily am a BSD hack, I do have several Linux
> >boxes and I love them all dearly...but many people have found that
> >Linux performs a bit poorly on sun4c-architecture machines
> >(sparcstation1, 1+, 2, IPC, IPX, SLC, ELC).  For much, much better
> >than 486/anything performance from an IPX, I'd suggest moving to one
> >of the BSDs...NetBSD or OpenBSD will run fine on the IPX.
> >
> >  I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm not an anti-Linux person,
> >blah blah blah...I've just run a *lot* of hardware in a lot of
> >different places and I've seen big differences in performance.  Linux
> >is famous for wringing amazing amounts of performance out of even the
> >lowest-end Intel box...this is not so on smaller sparcstations.
> >
> >         -Dave McGuire
> >
> >On July 6, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> >> Both machines (IPX and dx2 - by the way, Cyrix, not Intel) are
> >running Red
> >> Hat 6.2.  The SPARC IPX on 2.2.16-3, the dx2 on 2.2.14.
> >>
> >> The IPX is DOG SLOW running a windows manager.  It is much
> >faster to run
> >> Netscape, for example, by sending the output over to my NT workstation.
> >> Given network bandwidth, one would think that the network would be the
> >> bottleneck - but this is not the case.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:35 AM
> >> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>   Wow...what OS was this IPX running?  I've always had to get well up
> >> into the mid-range Pentium family before a PeeCee would perceptibly
> >> outperform an IPX...*especially* in graphics performance...I've
> >> always run either SunOS4 or NetBSD/sparc on them.
> >>
> >>           -Dave McGuire
> >>
> >> On July 6, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> >> > A SPARCstation IPX running with the PowerUp CPU (40 to
> >80Mhz) upgrade is
> >> not
> >> > quite as fast as an Intel 486dx2 50Mhz running Linux 6.2.
> >However, some
> >> of
> >> > the perceived speed difference may be that the IPX appears
> >to have much
> >> > slower graphics (X-based GUI) than the Intel box.
> >> >
> >> > All of the above is 'seat of the pants' estimates.
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: chris Gnther [mailto:madram at video.de]
> >> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:16 AM
> >> > To: MailingList SUN Help
> >> > Subject: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > some of you propably do know me and my "little" problem with
> >my SUN IPC.
> >> > Now - after 6 weeks of consequentely trying to get it work
> >and failling
> >> > miserably - I come to a point where I'd like to know what
> >exactly I could
> >> > do with it would ever get it to work.
> >> >
> >> > So my question is:
> >> >
> >> >     How fast or strong is a SUN IPC?
> >> >
> >> > My configuration is as follows:
> >> > - SUN IPC with WEITEK-Chip
> >> > - all 12 RAM Banks filled (still don't know how much RAM this is)
> >> > - 2GB IBM HDD
> >> > - a second Framebuffer card
> >> > - an ISDN-card
> >> > - and two 16" SUN-Monitors
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone tell me what exactly I can do with it.
> >> >
> >> > To give you a point on what I normally do with my PC running SOL8:
> >> > - writing with LaTeX2e
> >> > - Database-Developing with mySQL (runs on my Server)
> >> > - C and C++ programming
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >     thanks in advance,
> >> >
> >> >         chris
> >> >
> >> > +---------------------------------+
> >> > |             chris               |
> >> > | ------------------------------- |
> >> > |  database design & programming  |
> >> > |   agentur fiedler / video.de    |
> >> > |                                 |
> >> > |                 madram at video.de |
> >> > +---------------------------------+
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