On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:41:24PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> That's yes. Process scheduling and swap handling are *the* areas that makes
> difference.
>
> To add salt to the injury, the HP machine is 120MHz. OK it has SCSI disk
> and mine has IBM IDE. But that should be fair enough. Mine is PIII 450.
>
The HP RISC cpu could be actually faster than PIII, as the clock cycles
are much lower for RISC chips. (see also clock cycles for sparc).
Did you compare the performance of the generated app on both.
I think gcc does better optimisation on linux than hpux. If compilation
itself takes longer time on linux thats ok. On my system I have installed
entire OS+apps compiled and optimised for PII (www.rocklinux.org)
Note HPUX is installed by the vendor for your hardware.
You said "NFS telnet client", AFAIK NFS is filesystem and NIS does
authetication. You can setup NIS for linux too. Am curious if its
something different.
Anyway, you should be using ssh for "automatic telnet" in these days!
Can you compare the hardware cost of the HP machine and the PC ?
If running a compilation and trying a telnet is a way to compare
performance we dont need companies for testing.
Its another thing linux lacks a robust memory management like FreeBSD or
even HPUX ;) Thats something planned for 2.5 time.
Sorry for flamming :)
-Upendra
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