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Article #6441Re: Strange problem with Landmark speed test
From: Michael Alan Schuster
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 1990 13:05
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 1990 13:05
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>I'm running MS-DOS 4.01 on a 25Mhz AMI '386. When I run the Landmark >cpu-speed test (the one with the bar that graphically compares the >speed of the processor to the speed of a 4.77Mhz PC and a 6Mhz AT) >the value I get depends on how many TSRs are loaded -- but not >monotonically. The value I get is either 25 (approx) or 17 (approx) >and changes from one to the other as I load TSRs. Some TSRs cause >the change, some don't. Any idea what's going on? This sounds like a bug in the Landmark code that was fixed in version 1.1x; systems using page-interleave memory would execute the benchmark at different speeds depending on WHEREin physical memory the code was actually loaded. (i.e. on a bank boundary or not). Welcome to the world of benchmarks. Is this what you bought your computer to run? :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!schuster From: schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Strange problem with Landmark speed test Message-ID: <37225@cup.portal.com> Date: 25 Dec 90 13:05:20 GMT References: <5157@husc6.harvard.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 13