[NCLUG] July 1, 2003 talk - Linux System Performance

Bryan Stillwell bryan at bokeoa.com
Sun Jun 29 18:22:32 MDT 2003


Here's some results for my iBook (dual USB) under both OSX and Linux
which appears to have some interesting results.  I'm using the latest
version of Jaguar for OSX, and version 2.4.20ben10 of Linux.

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu		: 750CX
temperature 	: 16 C (uncalibrated)
clock		: 499MHz
revision	: 34.21 (pvr 0008 2215)
bogomips	: 996.14
machine		: PowerBook4,1
motherboard	: PowerBook4,1 PowerBook2,2 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as	: 257 (iBook 2)
pmac flags	: 0000000b
L2 cache	: 256K unified
memory		: 384MB
pmac-generation	: NewWorld
-------------- next part --------------
Mbench by John. L. Bass, DMS Design copyright 1985-1996
You are free to copy and use this program providing configuration info
and results are shared with the author by email to jbass at dmsd.com

Counts are per clock tick, presumed to be HZ=100
 SetSize         Random    Sequential
--------  ------------- ------------- 0%        25%        50%        75%       100%
    1024  1291892 100%  2624128 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
    1536  1294493 100%  2634667 100% |                     *                     @ 
    2048  1294496 100%  2634656 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
    3072  1291912 100%  2618942  99% |                     *                     @ 
    4096  1293197 100%  2632105 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
    6144  1291892 100%  2629467 100% |                     *                     @ 
    8192  1294493 100%  2624224 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
   12288  1291912 100%  2618986  99% |                     *                     @ 
   16384  1294493 100%  2632137 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
   24576  1291912 100%  2613831  99% |                     *                     @ 
   32768  1285477  99%  2619062  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   49152   905248  70%   421264  16% |      @       *                              
   65536   660712  51%   419570  15% |      @   *          |          |          | 
   98304   594924  46%   417082  15% |      @  *                                   
  131072   507821  39%   416671  15% |      @ * |          |          |          | 
  196608   472408  36%   402582  15% |      @*                                     
  262144   353785  27%   284520  10% |    @*    |          |          |          | 
  393216    74378   5%    42741   1% |@                                            
  524288    49852   3%    41996   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
  786432    42146   3%    41942   1% |@                                            
 1048576    37594   2%    41868   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 1572864    35353   2%    41856   1% |@                                            
 2097152    33444   2%    41940   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 3145728    31713   2%    41868   1% |@                                            
 4194304    30346   2%    41898   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 6291456    28416   2%    41721   1% *@                                            
 8388608    26848   2%    42022   1% *@         |          |          |          | 
12582912    23586   1%    41932   1% *@                                            
16777216    22196   1%    41962   1% *@         |          |          |          | 
-------------- next part --------------
Mbench by John. L. Bass, DMS Design copyright 1985-1996
You are free to copy and use this program providing configuration info
and results are shared with the author by email to jbass at dmsd.com

Counts are per clock tick, presumed to be HZ=100
 SetSize         Random    Sequential
--------  ------------- ------------- 0%        25%        50%        75%       100%
    1024  1303941 100%  2652669 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
    1536  1303936  99%  2650022  99% |                     *                     @ 
    2048  1303936  99%  2652669 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
    3072  1303936  99%  2652672 100% |                     *                     @ 
    4096  1303936  99%  2650022  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
    6144  1303936  99%  2652669 100% |                     *                     @ 
    8192  1303936  99%  2650022  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   12288  1303936  99%  2650016  99% |                     *                     @ 
   16384  1303936  99%  2650016  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   24576  1303936  99%  2647369  99% |                     *                     @ 
   32768  1301333  99%  2639442  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   49152   913216  70%   423257  15% |      @       *                              
   65536   668220  51%   424112  15% |      @   *          |          |          | 
   98304   599896  46%   422859  15% |      @  *                                   
  131072   514430  39%   421583  15% |      @ * |          |          |          | 
  196608   484384  37%   414929  15% |      @*                                     
  262144   362923  27%   293024  11% |    @*    |          |          |          | 
  393216    75232   5%    43296   1% |@                                            
  524288    50797   3%    42614   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
  786432    42581   3%    42286   1% |@                                            
 1048576    37888   2%    42272   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 1572864    35744   2%    42272   1% |@                                            
 2097152    33760   2%    42272   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 3145728    32128   2%    42272   1% |@                                            
 4194304    30623   2%    42272   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 6291456    28675   2%    42272   1% *@                                            
 8388608    27136   2%    42272   1% *@         |          |          |          | 
12582912    23896   1%    42272   1% *@                                            
16777216    22413   1%    42272   1% *@         |          |          |          | 
-------------- next part --------------
Mbench by John. L. Bass, DMS Design copyright 1985-1996
You are free to copy and use this program providing configuration info
and results are shared with the author by email to jbass at dmsd.com

Counts are per clock tick, presumed to be HZ=100
 SetSize         Random    Sequential
--------  ------------- ------------- 0%        25%        50%        75%       100%
    1024  1306517 100%  2613733 100% |          |          *          |          @ 
    1536  1305223  99%  2611117  99% |                     *                     @ 
    2048  1306523 100%  2611104  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
    3072  1306528 100%  2611104  99% |                     *                     @ 
    4096  1306528 100%  2611104  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
    6144  1306528 100%  2611104  99% |                     *                     @ 
    8192  1306528 100%  2611104  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   12288  1306528 100%  2611104  99% |                     *                     @ 
   16384  1305223  99%  2613718  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   24576  1305216  99%  2613728  99% |                     *                     @ 
   32768  1305216  99%  2611117  99% |          |          *          |          @ 
   49152  1111776  85%   416192  15% |      @           *                          
   65536   960096  73%   415776  15% |      @   |    *     |          |          | 
   98304   518976  39%   200759   7% |  @     *                                    
  131072   362656  27%   148064   5% | @   *    |          |          |          | 
  196608   176384  13%    78592   3% |@ *                                          
  262144   136328  10%    62879   2% |@*        |          |          |          | 
  393216    92004   7%    49785   1% |@*                                           
  524288    68512   5%    45568   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
  786432    52020   3%    43317   1% |@                                            
 1048576    45216   3%    42942   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 1572864    39656   3%    42944   1% |@                                            
 2097152    36736   2%    42944   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 3145728    33762   2%    42901   1% |@                                            
 4194304    32000   2%    42912   1% |@         |          |          |          | 
 6291456    29600   2%    42912   1% *@                                            
 8388608    27964   2%    42912   1% *@         |          |          |          | 
12582912    24456   1%    42912   1% *@                                            
16777216    22921   1%    42912   1% *@         |          |          |          | 


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