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Re: SP5 Update - Not Stable



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no it is not just your computer .. I get the same error and cannot fix it
and I have been on with a relatively good tech support guy who made sure my
temp file was truly empty .. all to no avail

----- Original Message -----
From: <Trevor.Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 4:13 AM
Subject: RE: SP5 Update - Not Stable


> Why I tried to load it, but it could not extract because there was not
> enough space in the /temp directory. There is lots of space on the
computer.
> I downloaded it again and the same thing happened. I guess it is a problem
> with my computer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Fulks [mailto:bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 May 2000 11:58
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: SP5 Update - Not Stable
>
>
> At 12:58 PM -0700 5/30/00, David Fenstemaker wrote:
>
> >I have been running the SP 5 update since last week,
> >and true to Omega, it is less stable than SP3 or SP4.
>
> <snip>
>
> >The biggest problem with SP 5 is optimization,
> >or changing system parameters while off line.
>
>
>
>
> Although it has only been running for a short time, I have seen more
> stability and speed with the new release. It is clearly faster for
> optimization runs than previous versions.
>
> Below is a summary of the time in seconds required per test for an
> optimization run I that have used as a benchmark on several machines.
> (These results include tests by several people on the same
> benchmark.) It shows the that TS2000i was about the same speed as
> TS4.0 through SP4c but became a factor of about two faster with SP5.
>
> The slowest was 8.7 seconds per test for a slower machine on TS4.0
> down to 1.4 seconds per test on the fastest machine on SP5.
>
> This is for a clean install of SP3, upgraded to SP4c, then upgraded to
SP5.
>
> I wondered how the users are finding the quality level and speed of SP5?
>
> Latest summary of benchmarks attached below.
>
> Bob
>
> ----------------------------
>
> The time per test was as follows (in seconds). (The total time for an
> optimization run would be these numbers multiplied be the number of
> tests performed in the run.)
>
>                                 OS      TS4.0   TS2000i  TS2000i
>                                                   SP4c     SP5
> HP Pavilion 8550 Celeron 500  Win98     8.7
> Gateway GP6 PII 300           WinNT     6.4
> Gateway E-5200 PIII 500       WinNT     5.3      4.7      2.3
> RK-500  (AMD K6 500)         Win2000    4.9*     5.5**
> Athlon A-750  machine        Win2000             2.3      1.4
>
> *  20 GB IDE disk
> ** 9 GB SCSI disk
>
>
> ------
>
> NBench performance numbers on the machines:
>
>                         RK500   E-5200  8550C   A-750
>
> CPU     Performance,    MOPs/sec
>          Integer Speed:  481     363     362     599
>          Floating Speed:  82      74      73     162
>
> Memory Move Performance (MBytes/sec)
>          region width  random  random  random  random
>          1KB     1       216     214     124     400
>          1KB     2       345     430     248     794
>          1KB     4       913     897     496    1588
>          1KB     8      1335    1100     737    2075
>          10KB    1       193     215     123     404
>          10KB    2       318     419     246     791
>          10KB    4       798     836     495    1580
>          10KB    8      1249    1060     728    2062
>          100KB   1        14      29      37      76
>          100KB   2        28      58      73     150
>          100KB   4        55     114     145     296
>          100KB   8       134     276     294     720
>          1000KB  1         6      16      10      23
>          1000KB  2        13      32      19      46
>          1000KB  4        25      64      37      91
>          1000KB  8        61     150      90     176
>
>          region  width serial  serial  serial  serial
>          1KB     1       319     255     171     495
>          1KB     2       393     503     341     965
>          1KB     4      1019    1010     697    1904
>          1KB     8      1313    1033     688    2007
>          10KB    1       293     247     170     499
>          10KB    2       374     510     337     978
>          10KB    4       955    1024     691    1910
>          10KB    8      1222    1026     682    2003
>          100KB   1        53     116      91     221
>          100KB   2        83     181     165     402
>          100KB   4       122     247     270     651
>          100KB   8       135     276     295     723
>          1000KB  1        24      53      35      51
>          1000KB  2        38      90      58      95
>          1000KB  4        55     135      83     168
>          1000KB  8        61     146      90     183
>
> Disk (MBytes/sec)
>          thread: C         0       0       0       0
>          write:  C        22      16       5       8
>          read:   C        23      17       5      11
>
>          thread: C         0       0       0       0
>          write:  C        22      18       5      10
>          read:   C        23      16       6      26
>
>          thread: D         0       0               0
>          write:  D        16      17               8
>          read:   D        21      17              16
>
>          thread: D         0       0
>          write:  D        15      16
>          read:   D        21      16
>
>          thread: E         0       0
>          write:  E        19      16
>          read:   E        20      18
>
>          thread: E         0       0
>          write:  E        21      18
>          read:   E        21      16
>
>