Performance on a Alpha 2100a

[James Wynne <James.Wynne@xxxxxxxx>]

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(also sent it in HTML).

Hello
I have a DEC Alpha 2100a 4/275, duel processor with 512MB of memory running
Tru64  V5.1 732. I do not have much knowledge of alpha hardware, so my first
question what would be a comparable Intel based spec?

Secondly, I have run a some test java applications on the system, including
the volano benchmark. The results were very disappointing with the system
running about 4 times slower than a 600Mz(celeron) NT machine with 128MB. I
am using the Compaq fast64 JVM version 1.2.2-8. The rest of the system
performance seems fine for instance compiling samba,CDE,apache etc. Is this
a tuning issue or do I just have a slow machine? 

Note: I have "tuned" the machine as according the advice in the tuning your
system as an internet server document.

James Wynne
Professional Services Engineer
XIAM Limited - The Information Router Company
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