Philipp Knirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Moloko Monyepao wrote:
> > I RedHat 7.2 (Server Installation). I am currentely testing sendmail (Comparing
>the load handling between Linux on Intel and Linux on S390. I am using an IBM z37
>machine with one IFL and I gave my Linux LPar 80Pwt (processor weighting on the IFL)
> > When the sever gets too busy start rejecting messages. Just for outbount mail and
>I also want to test for both Inbound/Outbound. What could be the problem here. I will
>send any further information if it is needed. The following is what I got from my
>mail administrator.
> >
> > 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...
Also - your choice of compiler might make a difference (though,
probably not in the case of a mail server... which I can imagine
is I/O bound.)
For example, Systems/C on Linux390 typically presents values that
are up to 20% faster than gcc for these other tests.
- Dave Rivers -
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