Subject: Re: Port benchmarks
To: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/31/2000 14:38:36
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:43:43PM -0800, R. C. Dowdeswell wrote:
> [ instructions for running lmbench ]

Thanks ! Here are the results:
Missing data in ds20: lat_protfault lat_rpc_tcp_local lat_rpc_udp_local

                 L M B E N C H  1 . 9   S U M M A R Y
                 ------------------------------------
                 (Alpha software, do not distribute)

Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
----------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS  Mhz null null      open selct sig  sig  fork exec sh  
                             call  I/O stat clos       inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
ds20        NetBSD 1.4U  498  0.6  2.5   12   16 0.05K  1.2    4 0.7K   3K   5K

Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
                        ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
--------- ------------- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
ds20        NetBSD 1.4U    3     10     48    18     56      22      61

*Local* Communication latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS 2p/0K  Pipe AF     UDP  RPC/   TCP  RPC/ TCP
                        ctxsw       UNIX         UDP         TCP conn
--------- ------------- ----- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----
ds20        NetBSD 1.4U     3    16   15    48          49        938

File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
--------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS   0K File      10K File      Mmap    Prot    Page       
                        Create Delete Create Delete  Latency Fault   Fault 
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------  ------- -----   ----- 
ds20        NetBSD 1.4U   1408    854   1515   2325  1785192          0.1K

*Local* Communication bandwidths in MB/s - bigger is better
-----------------------------------------------------------
Host                OS  Pipe AF    TCP  File   Mmap  Bcopy  Bcopy  Mem   Mem
                             UNIX      reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
ds20        NetBSD 1.4U   41   45   49    190    406    311    215  406   372

Memory latencies in nanoseconds - smaller is better
    (WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs)
---------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS   Mhz  L1 $   L2 $    Main mem    Guesses
--------- -------------   ---  ----   ----    --------    -------
ds20        NetBSD 1.4U   498     5     30         170


The '*Local* Communication bandwidths' numbers don't looks rigth compared
to Simon's results for a ds20/OSF1. I can't believe NetBSD is that bad :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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