In this
business we all need to know how to say I don't know and you taught
me
something as things change too fast to have our feet in concrete.
Lionel is right ... I say it all the time. Maybe I don't know, but
fortunately the members of this list are more than willing to share
their knowledge
At 15:40 25-05-02, Alan Cox wrote:
Other way around. Modern processors are in instructions per clock.
Same for mainframe CPU as far as I know, which is one of the reasons
why we don't use the MIPS to rate the speed of a processor. Like what
is my MIPS rate when we have zero-cycle instructions?
Other way around. Modern processors are in instructions per clock. On
raw CPU power it doesn't just beat the mainframe - it steamrollers them.
Your I/O bus is typically PCI however so you are limited to about
100Mbytes/second I/O throughput in the real world.
I would regard 100Mb/sec as a
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 10:52, Phil Payne wrote:
Your I/O bus is typically PCI however so you are limited to about
100Mbytes/second I/O throughput in the real world.
I would regard 100Mb/sec as a peak (instantaneous) transfer rate. Throughput will
be only a
fraction of that. On some tests
Lets take a real world benchmark. On $2000 of PC I can recompile the
entire Linux kernel in 3 minutes, and the entirity of XFree86 in 30. I
can saturate multiple 100Mbit links with web traffic. I can encode video
in real time to mpeg and burn it to VideoCD as I go. I can render
1024x768 3D
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 10:52, Phil Payne wrote:
Your I/O bus is typically PCI however so you are limited to about
100Mbytes/second I/O throughput in the real world.
I would regard 100Mb/sec as a peak (instantaneous) transfer rate. Throughp
ut will be only a
fraction of that. On
Vendor provided comparisons between its own products. Comparisons by
Ford between Ford cards don't tell you anything about whether its a
Porsche or Bicycle equivalent. And *no* credible mainstream computing
journalist will trust a vendor provided benchmark. They've seen enough
such material,
We actually disclosed all the internal results on the testing to date with
zSeries. It is available on our Website in response to the recent articles
off linuxworld.com.
It is a tremendous effort I can tell you to do Benchmarking with large mail
(millions of users) environments, all the so
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 20:31, Phil Payne wrote:
No - you're a power user - the sort of person who would have gone out to buy a 387.
Although
there seem to be lots of power users about, that's because they inhabit similar
places. A few
thousand or a few tens of thousands at most - compared
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 03:10, Jay Maynard wrote:
I think it's revealing as hell that Moshe Bar got comparable performance out
of Linux/390 on a 2-way 1 GHz PIII under Hercules - which, I'm guessing,
will turn about 10 MIPS with a reasonable I/O load - to what he did out of a
PII-450. I
From Jay Maynard:
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:42:32PM -0700, Lionel Dyck wrote:
Seems that the linuxworld author of the mainframe articles is none too
happy with those on this listserv.
I haven't been reading this guy's articles...and after reading the sidebar,
it's clear I haven't missed
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
existing compute-bound applications are not a good fit-
though web-hosting and file serving are two good fits since
they're bursty and don't sit and spin (unless the web host is
facing the slashdot effect).
Seems that the linuxworld author of the mainframe articles is none too
happy with those on this listserv.
http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0522.mainframelinux.sidebar2.html
All I can say is I am disappointed that the editors would publish his rant
and as I assume he is still
remember seeing
that particular bit of nonsense before, but if anyone else does, I'd
appreciate a pointer.
On to making this beast work, now.
Mark Post
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