On Wednesday 04 April 2001 18:51, you wrote:
> This may be opening a pointless can of worms,
> but, I'm really curious as to how to explain
> the behavior I'm seeing. Each time I run
> gears, it is perfectly consistent in it's
> speed (+/- .5 FPS) for that instance. But,
> each time I run gears, it is consistent around
> a different value that ranges from 718 all the
> way to 751 FPS. Why would it do this? What
> might be determining this rate and why is it
> so consistent each time, and why does it not
> vary in each instance all the way up to the
> fastest I've seen it can go (~751)?
When Im benchmarking I make sure X picks up fonts fixed and cursor from the
correct fonts directory (I.e. don't use xfs), switch to run level 1 and get X
and the app up (.xinitrc file). Something like
RL#1_%1 su root
ROOT> exec xinit
with .xinitrc having
exec /usr/bin/gears or something.
As has already been mentioned benchmarking on a time-sharing machine is
always tricky. When were benchmarking numerical codes on linux we always goto
rl#1 (of course those codes only have terminal output so its a damn site
easier). If we don't we simply don't get consistent results.
Andy
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