Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ1 vs. RaQ3

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, chris wrote:

> Another interesting test to check the power of CISC 300 MHz vs. MIPS 250
> MHz vs MIPS 150 MHz
> using the 'top' command and checking percentage of CPU used by the top
> command itself:

That's not really a fair test tho, first top spends most of it's time
blocked, not using cpu time really, what you are seeing is mostly context
switch time, which is horrible on x86 cpu's due to cra**y FPU design..

More interesting would be a cpu saturated perl script....(and the amount
of ram perl sucks up running it ;0
> 
> RaQ3: from 4.3 to 4.9%
> RaQ2: from 3.4 to 4.2%
> RaQ1: from 4.4 to 5.2%
> 
> A RaQ2 has definitely more power than a RaQ3....