[daip] Y2K on vortex

[Eric Greisen]

I have tested the new mega-machine in GB.  It is a Solaris box with 4
Gbytes of memory and at poresent no users.  I tested first with simple
data disks and then with raid disks using the old SOL (non-Ultra
specific load modules) and then build a SUL using -fast and the
version 6 compiler on vortex.  The results are not so good - the
accuracies of the images and data are fine but the speeds disappoint:

Test              DDT                Y2K
              sec    AMark       sec    AMark

SOL /data     152    26.3       1527     26.2
SOL /raid     142    28.2       1522     26.3

SUL /raid     165    24.2       1686     23.7

This suggests that some of the optimization done by -fast is
counterproductive   With non-Ultra load modules the single-head
performance matches that of a single-head of a Pentium III 800 MHz
Linux box.

ERic