Sun-3 benchmarks

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1171 at cornell.UUCP> jqj at cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) writes:
>
>What I'm looking for is a set of benchmarks, including raw data and programs,
>that purport to measure system throughput in a typical multiuser Unix
>setting.  I would be particularly interested in seeing the Sun-3 with
>SMD/Eagle disk and 4 or 8MB memory compared to a uVAX II with Emulex (or
>SI)/Eagle disk and 5 or 9MB memory.  I am less interested in raw cpu
>benchmarks, but I would be interested in benchmarks of particular components
>of general system throughput.
>
I recently came across one of the better UNIX benchmarks, in helping an OEM
with a bid for the federal court system.  I don't know whether the benchmarks
are the property of the government or not, but they seemed rather thorough.
They were for System V (as opposed to 4.2).  Things tested include:

	CPU speed (whetstone and dhrystone)
	performance of the disk (creating a 100M file and doing random I/O)
	performance of the terminals (whether multiple terminals could
		simultaneously output 9600 baud)
	performance of nroff
	Paging performance
	Multiuser performance (various of the above things at the same time)