Re: Performance comparison Alpha ES40 vs Itanium rx3600


"John Reagan" <john.reagan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Syltrem wrote:


These IA64 CPUs are supposed to be faster, and they have 2 cores each.

Faster than what? Older Itaniums? The ES40?


I need hard numbers (operations per second, or something)


what kind of operations? memory accesses? IOs? integer additions?

I can't give you hard numbers, but I would certainly expect the Itanium to
be faster than your ES40 for an average workload.

--
John Reagan
HP Pascal/{A|I}MACRO/COBOL for OpenVMS Project Leader
Hewlett-Packard Company

That server (the ES40 to be replaced by some Itanium box) hosts 6 Oracle
databases of which 1 is heavily accessed, plus all clients (300) that run
different applications (mostly 4GL apps), some of which use RMS files and
others Oracle.
It also has Advanced Server (Pathworks) with 500 connections and 50 open
files, and a dozen Progress databases.
And also a few other minor things.

The MONITOR SYSTEM reports
Processes - 450
CPU Busy (234) -- 4 CPUs
Direct I/O Rate (3956)
Buffered I/O Rate (2819)

There is minimal pagefaulting but not much memory left (XFC cache 77MB and
Free List 18MB)
Those numbers are quite normal during daytime.

Syltrem



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