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Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:33 AM
Hi Klaus:

Concerning these CPU times:

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System CPU time

Athlon 800MHz 100 %
Athlon 1200 MHz ~ 70%
P4 1800 MHz ~ 32%

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You did not mention the memory being used by these systems. However it is
reasonable to assume:

Athlon 800Mhz was using 133MHZ SDRAM
Athlon 1200Mhz was using 200MHZ DDR
P4 1800Mhz was using 400Mhz Rambus

If all machines were memory bandwidth limited then I would expect:

System CPU time

Athlon 800MHz 100 %
Athlon 1200 MHz ~ 67%
P4 1800 MHz ~ 33%

which is close to what was observed.

Larry Wigton


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