The 30 Minute Benchmark

[Paul Manno]

A copy of the benchmark programs producing the following results has
been published in net.sources for your enjoyment.  In order to make any
sense of these numbers, you MUST review the benchmark programs and 
system configurations in net.sources.  We accept no responsibility for
your use of the data.

Here is a summary of some of the results with the numbers given as
real/user/sys time in seconds.  ("Sort" is the execution of sort on a
1MB file of random ASCII integers; "memdisk" and "memcpu" are the
average times for execution of five concurrent copies of the "disk"
and "cpu" benchmarks.)

     machine     |    sort    |  memdisk  |   memcpu
-----------------|------------|-----------|------------
VAX 750 - 4.1BSD | 455/316/68 | 668/27/32 | 1132/207/9
VAX 750 - 4.2BSD | 309/281/20 | 271/25/17 | 1052/204/4
VAX 780 - 4.1BSD | 357/180/38 | 802/16/21 |  776/106/3 
VAX 785 - Ultrix | 119/105/ 8 | 246/10/ 8 |  340/ 68/0.4

For those folks not receiving net.sources, you may request a copy of
the programs through UUCP mail or by sending me a tape (pre-addressed
and return postage paid, please) to the address below.  I welcome
constructive comments and additional results you may wish to send.

Paul Manno (...{akgua, gatech, mcnc}!msdc!paul)
Medical Systems Development Corporation
P. O. Box 26022
Atlanta, GA  30335

P.S.  The name "The 30 Minute Benchmark" is not derived from the amount
of time to run the benchmark.  That's the time it took to write it!  :-)