RE: setiathome on a UP1000

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman mv com>]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:

> What was the clock speed on that, Rich? How much L2 cache?

600 2MB.
 
> I just informally benchmarked an HP-UX i2000 Itanium system last week.
> It got 4:20 on the "Team LambChop" benchmark work unit. Not bad. It is
> still about an hour behind the fastest Athlon results posted though.

Good.

The 'scirocco' result on the same page (3hr 27min) was a dual CS20 833Mhz 
4MB DDR cache machine. It was a dual so it was turning out 2 packets every 
time!
 
> The "-nolock" bug is known, but there hasn't been a new client release
> since the fix was found. There shouldn't be any substantial performance
> difference between the Linux client and the Tru64 client. They were both
> built with "cxx". The Linux client was linked statically though with an
> EV5 libcpml, so that it would run on any Alpha/Linux system; even those
> that didn't have the Compaq runtime libraries installed (typical on
> Debian systems).

The client out now is newer than what was running on that machine. At the 
time the Tru64 client turned in better times. Maybe that's all changed now 
with ccc and company on Linux.

--rdp


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