Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu
Am 30.09.2009 um 06:09 schrieb Randy Appleton: Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? Yes, this can happen. Regarding boot times ... I'm not sure why this is interesting. The best goal would be to make it unneccessary to boot/reboot a machine at all. My $0.02 Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu
Hello, 2009/9/29 Martin Olsson mn...@minimum.se: http://www.phoronix.com/ Their test suite is GPLv3 so you can reuse it! A more precise link: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ Best regards, david -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Martin Olsson mar...@minimum.se wrote: Randy Appleton wrote: What tests would be most useful? It has been suggested to me... - Time to boot I think this one is important, but it's also very carefully analyzed by many others already. You have seen this right? http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png Yep. And it's exactly the right tool. I take suggestions for any more tools too. - Time to resume from sleep I think this one is the most interesting. In particular it seems that Apple has done a great job with this on their latest OS (in particular how fast they retrieve an DHCP ip address when resuming). Many Linux distros take a few seconds extra before you can actually use a web browser for example, after resume. - Time to login Same as boot? However, time from login prompt to fully loaded desktop is more interesting. The latest Ubuntu version has something called sreadahead though which should probably not be counted towards the total time because the sreadahead process runs with very low CPU and IO priorities. But something like from login prompt until all icons on the desktop is rendered or from login prompt until the Applications menu in GNOME is opened. Yes, this is exactly what I mean. Sorry I was unclear. It would also be interesting to see how these measurements different when certain input variables change. For example, when there is 1, 10, 100 or 1000 icons on the desktop, how does the corresponding time grow? linearly? quadratically? or even exponentially? I don't know. Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? I could do no icons and 20 icons. That might be interesting. Alternatively if number of desktop icons has no real impact, then I report that. - Time to find a file using the default search tool Depends a lot on harddrive speed, number of and size of the documents, how they are organized into folders etc. I think it would be hard to get useful data out of this one. It would also depend on which tool each distribution uses. I *think* Sues uses beagle and Ubuntu and Fedora uses trackerd. If so, I would expect performance differences. - Time to load a document in OpenOffice This could turn out to be interesting if some input variable was modified during repeated benchmarks. For example, how does the load time grow when the number of pages the document has increases? - Time to view a folder with 1,000 documents in it. This one is another good one. Here I also would like to know how the time grows for 1, 10, 100, 1000, 1 documents. It occurs to me it would also matter if the folder has been previously visited and had the icons made, or if it's a new folder (like a memorystick) that needs to get it's icons made. This could also be interesting, even though updating the distro is a much more rare task for the user (hopefully!) Thanks for the suggestions. I'd love to hear more suggestions from you (or anyone else). -Randy Appleton -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Benchmarking Ubuntu
Hi! I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate research project. Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone timed various operations in Ubuntu vs RedHat vs Suse? I'm curious if it's quicker to log in, find a file, open a document, etc. in Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse? Does anyone already have data on these questions? Or, if we do the benchmarking myself, is anyone interested in the results? Finally, is there some particular operation you'd like to see benchmarked? -Much Thanks -Randy Appleton -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu
http://www.phoronix.com/ Their test suite is GPLv3 so you can reuse it! Martin Randy Appleton wrote: I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate research project. Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone timed various operations in Ubuntu vs RedHat vs Suse? I'm curious if it's quicker to log in, find a file, open a document, etc. in Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse? Does anyone already have data on these questions? Or, if we do the benchmarking myself, is anyone interested in the results? Finally, is there some particular operation you'd like to see benchmarked? -Much Thanks -Randy Appleton -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu
Hi! I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate research project. Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone timed various operations in Ubuntu vs RedHat vs Suse? I'm curious if it's quicker to log in, find a file, open a document, etc. in Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse? Does anyone already have data on these questions? Or, if we do the benchmarking myself, is anyone interested in the results? Finally, is there some particular operation you'd like to see benchmarked? -Much Thanks -Randy Appleton -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
