Message-Id: <10736.126213@fatcity.com>
From: John Kanagaraj <JKanagaraj@mfi.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:34:45 -0800
Subject: Re: Unix performance

> and after running this simple loop that simply does a few basic mathmatic
> opertions, our production server does the loop in 40secs and our new server
> does the loop in 10secs. Does anyont konw what could cause such a drastic
> differnce in doing a simple math operation. and yes both tests were
> performed with no other users on the servers.
> this is the loop:

Hi HP,

Can you run the loop as a shell script and time it via 'time <script>'
and report the times (real, user, sys) and then maybe we could pick up
some extra clues. 

In any case, aren't you happy that the new server is performing 4 times
better (at least for this job)???!

John Kanagaraj
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

Disclaimer : The opinions expressed above are my own and do 
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