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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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>> Hello. After I get an old U5 box, I decide to replace my desktop |
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>> computer with another UltraSparc. My desktop computer is Pentium 1G / |
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>> 256MB memory / ATA100 IDE box. |
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>> What UltraSparc (with how many of what CPU) has similiar average |
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>> desktop performance as my Pentium box? I usually only browsing |
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>> around, use openoffice and gimp a little, vim as editor and doesn't |
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>> use huge IDE like eclipse. What's your suggestion? |
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> This is just a guess, but an Ultra 2 with dual 300s or 400s is |
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> probably going to be pretty close in performance. |
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A small test showed very disapointing result. (This is not a desktop |
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performace test, only I play with it) |
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I tried to compare my Ultra 5 ( 333MHz single CPU / ATA66 IDE / 256 MB ) |
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with Celeron 600 MHz box ( ATA 66, 256MB memory). My test is to |
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calculate the complecity of Linux kernel code. |
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(command line: # sloccount /usr/src/linux-sparc-2.4.27/ ) |
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On U5 it takes325 seconds, on Celeron it takes 257 seconds. They both |
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take almost same amount of kernel time, but U5 takes 210 seconds user |
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time, while Celeron only takes 76 seconds. |
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To perform this task, Celeron used 79% of total time compare to U5. So I |
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think perhaps U5 does not perform better than Celeron 500MHz. This way, |
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I can hardly expect dual 300MHz would overperform Pentium 1G, especially |
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dual CPU (IMHO) does not help much with desktop thanks to that only a |
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few desktop applications use more than one process... |
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Perhaps I am wrong in this small test? |
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