Ian Smith wrote:
I've been doing some benchmarking of OpenSUSE using UnixBench 5.1. I noticed
that 10.3 is 15% - 25% slower than 10.2. (10.2 was 50% faster than 10.1,
yay!).
The benchmark is really showing very strange numbers. The shell script
benchmark (consisting mainly of sort and grep) is only _half_ as fast in
10.3 as in 10.2 in your measurements. I ran that test on my system and
got similar results. Interestingly, the performance is much higher if I
switch to runlevel 1!!! Here are my results for "./Run shell1" on a
Pentium M at 1.3Ghz:
Suse 10.0, runlevel 5: 511.4
Suse 10.0, runlevel 1: 920.7
Suse 10.3, runlevel 2: 385.9
Suse 10.3, runlevel 1: 756.9
Please note that Ian's Intel Core Duo Processor at 2Ghz scored only
557.9 points on this test, while my much older 1.3Ghz Pentium M scores
756.9 points, at least when I benchmark in runlevel 1.
This is _very_ strange. Usually I would say the benchmark is broken, but
the benchmark simply starts a shell script that starts some GNU
utilities. There's not much you can break here.
Can someone confirm that running in runlevel 1 yields much higher
benchmark scores?
Puzzled
nordi
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