X benchmark

[Bill Kennedy]

After I posted my report regarding sudden and effective service
from SunRiver, Richard Foulk asked me to run his benchmark and post
the results.  I've done it in two ways.  The first is on the native
console, with and without the 80x24 subwindow and then the SunRiver
workstation with and without the 80x24 subwindow.

UNIX:		ISC 2.0.2   (this is constant for all four results)
CPU:		33MHz Micronics, 64K cache, 8Mb RAM (same for all four)
80387:		No, same for all four

X server:	native console ISC X11R3 1.1 ORVGAni
		SunRiver workstation ISC X11R3 1.1 PVGA1A
Resolution:	native console 1024x768x16
		SunRiver workstation 800x600x16
Video card:	native console Orchid ProDesigner Plus
		SunRiver workstation their VGA setup

Real times:	SunRiver w/o subwindow 0m9.19s
		Native w/o subwindow   0m7.95s
		SunRiver w/subwindow   3m0.74s
		Native w/subwindow     1m21.16s

Qualifiers...  The system wasn't "dried up", i.e. there were a couple
of 19,200bps uucico's running (which I think is quite realistic) and
the "subwindow" figures are for starting an xterm -geometry 80x24 -fn 8x13
+j & in the existing main xterm window.  Scrolling in the subwindow version
is noticably slower, but I was able to read it.  Scrolling in my first level
xterm was jerky and I often couldn't read it.  None of that has anything
to do with anything if you're looking for fire breathing performance, but
I was watching the test while I imagined how I'd like what was going by if
I needed to read it.

Now what really interests me is if I post the results of running the
benchmark on both X stations at once, what kinds of comparisons will
we get from the 386/ix community? :-) :-)  If I add a third, fourth, or
fifth X station to the host adapter card and run all 3, 4, or 5 benchmarks
at once, what kinds of comparisons will we get from anyone who can carry
their machine and a cup of coffee at the same time? :-) :-) :-)

OK, maybe not fair, but I already said I was a deleriously happy SunRiver
customer...
-- 
Bill Kennedy  usenet      {texbell,att,cs.utexas.edu,sun!daver}!ssbn!bill
              internet    bill at ssbn.WLK.COM   or attmail!ssbn!bill