Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: freshy98 <freshy98@×××.net>
To: klaus@××××××××××.net
Cc: zhangweiwu@××××××.com, wesolows@××××××××.org, agaffney@g.o, gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] what ultrasparc compare likely such Pentium box on desktop performance
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:12:23
Message-Id: 26451.1101993141@www27.gmx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] what ultrasparc compare likely such Pentium box on desktop performance by Klaus Wagner
1 Just to give my input here...
2
3 I run a Ultra 60 dual 450MHz/4MB cache with 1GB of RAM (8*128MB) and two
4 Seagate Cheetah 18XL 18.2GB drives in RAID0.
5 The SCSI bus is only 40MB/s and a single drives can do about 33MB/s or a bit
6 faster (been a while since I last tested that).
7
8 The machine runs xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 with gnome 2.8, xchat 2.4.0, Gaim 1.0.2
9 and FireFox 1.0 mainly.
10 Loadings times are well acceptable though gnome-terminal isn't as fast as
11 loading on my main PC (a AMD XP-M 2400+ @ 2420MHz), but doable.
12
13 What I would like to try is using my SUN dual channel scsi controller and
14 hooking up the two drives to that in RAID0. That should improve speed a lot
15 too.
16
17 Greetz,
18
19 freshy98
20
21
22 > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:19:25PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
23 > > Here, again, I wanna be suggested by you experts.
24 > >
25 > > 1) I am a saleman (luckly, I am just technical enough to use gentoo, not
26 > > any more). My work mostly involve mozilla and openoffice, acroreader
27 > etc.
28 > > 2) I have been using an very old notebook I brought several years ago,
29 > > thinkpad with Pentium 1G. Later the CPU gets burned, so replaced a
30 > > 800MHz. I don't use desktop computer.
31 > >
32 > > I want to have a sparc desktop now. We are using in the company very
33 > > complicated web-based database and customer management system, I usually
34 > > (with my notebook) wait 8 seconds untill one webpage fully loaded,
35 > > because each page is too complicated with javascript and lots of forms
36 > > and tables. (Network is very fast.) I hate to let my customer wait 8
37 > > seconds on the phone untill I could see the customer's record, because 8
38 > > seconds feels like 80 seconds on the phone, and sometimes I need to go
39 > > through 3~5 pages untill I can find a customer record. So mainly, I wish
40 > > mozilla is multi-threads and my new sparc could make this very
41 > > application (mozilla) go faster.
42 > >
43 > > A) is U2 with dual 400Mhz fast enough for me?
44 > > B) how about U60 with dual CPU?
45 > A uses an sbus, B pci (64bit)
46 > A has one GRAPHICS BUS, B has two (if you want to go for dual head)
47 >
48 > I am using B with 755 MB RAM and two CPUs (i thing ~300 mhz but i don't
49 > know)
50 >
51 > I don't think that Sparc II Systems can compete with well balanced
52 > P3 and P4 Systems. (maybe dual 480 MHZ)
53 >
54 > But it's cool to have dual CPU and there is one way to boost Sparc
55 > Systems:
56 >
57 > Get as much memory you can effort and hope everything will get cached in
58 > Memory, then the Performace is quite good, even for single threaded
59 > Desktop
60 > applications (at least 512 MB, 1GB + would be fine)
61 >
62 > regards klaus
63 >
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66 >
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