Benchmarking DEC's MicroVAX II: Concurrent Processes

摘要

A benchmark of the MicroVAX II in a multiuser and multitasking environment is presented. The main objective was to use the standard benchmarks and to run these programs concurrently. At issue is not the absolute speed of running one benchmark, but rather to see exactly how well the MicroVAX II handles multiple concurrent processes. Instead of using VAX C or VAX Fortran the MicroVAX II was pitted against itself using simple Basic test programs and just using the MicroVMS defaults. From an analysis of 12 benchmarks it appears that each additional process grows proportionally. The result is compared to a multitasking UNIX benchmark of the PDP11/70, VAX750, and VAX780.