Re: How fast is your server?

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texte = We are trying to get this setup on a demo Xserve .. Dual 1GBWould *love* to see this result ..The test without line breaks is available here ..http://utility.blackpepper.co.nz/speed/speed2.txtAlain> On 7/23/02 2:14 PM, Andrew Simpson mashed the following keys :> >> Its a fair enough comment that the two platforms may not account for a>> 'tick' in the same way but the fact remains that the PC is visibly faster>> than the Mac. Its something that can be measured by counting in your head...> > Yeah, but again, the PC is 3.4x the clockspeed of the Mac and completed the> task 2.6x as fast. (if the ticks were even)> > The 533DP's strength is the fact that it has dual procs, which this test> harldy accounts for...> > I would certainly expect this result, but when you have 30 simultanious> connections hitting apache, webcatalog and whatever else (communigate?)> I would expect the difference to be lower still.> > The debate rages on :)> > I would love to see a 1gig xserve and a 1 or 2 ghz pentium do the test.> Especially a dual, dual.> > In a week or so we should have our xserve, so we have that long to devise a> more betterer, thorough-ish test, that displays the result in seconds... I> second is still more or less a second on a pc, isn't it?> > > >> >> I love mac's but I also love money and seen as how here in new zealand you>> can buy 6 PC's for the price of an Xserve, the Xserve is already at a big>> disadvantage.>> >> I would be interested in a proper test also as Aaron has sugested.>> >> I will try and device some better coding challenges to test later on>> tonight...>> >> Unless smith micro has something it can share?>> >> On 24/7/02 1:27 AM, John Peacock wrote:>> >>> Andrew Simpson wrote:>>>> >>>> The PC completed this task in 243 ticks while the mac took 637 ticks.>>> >>> Ticks on PC != Ticks on Mac>>> >>> The underlying operating system measures time in different ways; I believe>>> on>>> the Mac, a tick is 1/8 of a second, whereas on a PC it is 100 milliseconds>>> (0.1 >>> second). So you are not measuring the same thing.>>> >>> That being said, the disk processing time of writing 20000 times to a file>>> is>>> likely going to swamp any other variable (milliseconds vs nanoseconds). It>>> will >>> vary by O/S (classic Mac is not tuned as a server O/S), RAM, disk subsystem>>> (caching controller), and disk geometry itself. I don't think this test can>>> measure anything useful, unless you use the same box and vary some of the>>> parameters (add RAM, use a caching controller, use a 10k disk drive).>>> >>> John> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: How fast is your server? (Alain Russell 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Alain Russell 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Bob Minor 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Andrew Simpson 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Kenneth Grome 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Andrew Simpson 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Aaron Lynch 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Andrew Simpson 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (John Peacock 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Alain Russell 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Aaron Lynch 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Aaron Lynch 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Andrew Simpson 2002)
Re: How fast is your server? (Aaron Lynch 2002)
How fast is your server? (Andrew Simpson 2002)

We are trying to get this setup on a demo Xserve .. Dual 1GBWould *love* to see this result ..The test without line breaks is available here ..http://utility.blackpepper.co.nz/speed/speed2.txtAlain> On 7/23/02 2:14 PM, Andrew Simpson mashed the following keys :> >> Its a fair enough comment that the two platforms may not account for a>> 'tick' in the same way but the fact remains that the PC is visibly faster>> than the Mac. Its something that can be measured by counting in your head...> > Yeah, but again, the PC is 3.4x the clockspeed of the Mac and completed the> task 2.6x as fast. (if the ticks were even)> > The 533DP's strength is the fact that it has dual procs, which this test> harldy accounts for...> > I would certainly expect this result, but when you have 30 simultanious> connections hitting apache, webcatalog and whatever else (communigate?)> I would expect the difference to be lower still.> > The debate rages on :)> > I would love to see a 1gig xserve and a 1 or 2 ghz pentium do the test.> Especially a dual, dual.> > In a week or so we should have our xserve, so we have that long to devise a> more betterer, thorough-ish test, that displays the result in seconds... I> second is still more or less a second on a pc, isn't it?> > > >> >> I love mac's but I also love money and seen as how here in new zealand you>> can buy 6 PC's for the price of an Xserve, the Xserve is already at a big>> disadvantage.>> >> I would be interested in a proper test also as Aaron has sugested.>> >> I will try and device some better coding challenges to test later on>> tonight...>> >> Unless smith micro has something it can share?>> >> On 24/7/02 1:27 AM, John Peacock wrote:>> >>> Andrew Simpson wrote:>>>> >>>> The PC completed this task in 243 ticks while the mac took 637 ticks.>>> >>> Ticks on PC != Ticks on Mac>>> >>> The underlying operating system measures time in different ways; I believe>>> on>>> the Mac, a tick is 1/8 of a second, whereas on a PC it is 100 milliseconds>>> (0.1 >>> second). So you are not measuring the same thing.>>> >>> That being said, the disk processing time of writing 20000 times to a file>>> is>>> likely going to swamp any other variable (milliseconds vs nanoseconds). It>>> will >>> vary by O/S (classic Mac is not tuned as a server O/S), RAM, disk subsystem>>> (caching controller), and disk geometry itself. I don't think this test can>>> measure anything useful, unless you use the same box and vary some of the>>> parameters (add RAM, use a caching controller, use a 10k disk drive).>>> >>> John> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Alain Russell

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