> > This is the BogoMips rating for the various machines: > > > > Mainframe: 326.04 BogoMIPS (Mainframe) > > Maggie (mail-spool, 500Mhz): 996.14 (Intel) 500meg (processor) > > > > Higher is better, BogoMIPS should also be generic across platforms. > > BogoMIPS is a fairly useless speed rating for the system, especially if you even > start to try to use it to compare different archs. Better use some 'real' > benchmarks, e.g simple ones like dhrystone or similar...
Longer ago than I like to remember, we started looking at JES2 MAS and wondering what affected its performance as a spooling and scheduling system in isolation. We came up with the idea of the "RABBITS time". The procedure was to cold-start JES2 and release a single job that replicated itself into the internal reader with randomly-generated jobnames. A stopwatch recorded the elapsed time from first release to the first 'SPOOL CRITICAL' message. We played around with numbers of initiators, various settings, spool layouts, etc. If it makes any sense - most of the people in the little group doing the playing later became the founders of Beta Systems. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
