Could you send the program to the list (or make it available),
	so people with identical hardware and different OS versions can
	get exact numbers?

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > That's an impressive performace hit!
> >
> > I assume that you directed the output to a file. Both machines ka650?
> >
> > This is a serious performance degradation, and it _should_ be fairly easy
> > to figure out where the hit took place.
>
> yeah.. no, the machines werent identical. the slowness was on a KA420, my
> faster scores were on a KA650. Still, theyre comparable CVAX processors,
> and a factor of ten speed difference is not explained by the machines.
> the output was sent to /dev/null in both cases- i dont think that the
> kernel would be 10x slower in /dev/null, either...
>
> isildur
>