Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:07:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:07:30 -0400 Received: from cibs9.sns.it ([192.167.206.29]:27656 "EHLO cibs9.sns.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:07:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:11:33 +0200 (CEST) From: venom@sns.it To: bert hubert cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi , Subject: Re: side-by-side Re: BYTE Unix Benchmarks Version 3.6 In-Reply-To: <20020905134830.GA16149@outpost.ds9a.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5059 Lines: 124 I usually run byte bench regularly with every new kernel, so I see some strange results here. >From your numbers, I would say you are using a PIII 600/900 Mhz (more or less). It is not an AMD AThlon or a PIV, since float and double are too slow, not it is a K6 because they are too fast. On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, bert hubert wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:48:30 +0200 > From: bert hubert > To: Paolo Ciarrocchi > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: side-by-side Re: BYTE Unix Benchmarks Version 3.6 > > Side-by-side with some marked changes highlighted: > > 2.4.19 2.5.33 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dhrystone 2 without register variable 1499020.6 lps 1488327.9 lps > Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1501168.4 lps 1488265.3 lps > Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh) 3598100.4 lps 3435944.6 lps this could vary a little > Arithmetic Test (type = register) 201521.0 lps 197870.4 lps > Arithmetic Test (type = short) 190245.9 lps 145140.8 lps the difference should never be so big > Arithmetic Test (type = int) 201904.5 lps 104440.5 lps the difference should never be so big > Arithmetic Test (type = long) 201906.4 lps 177757.4 lps the difference should never be so big seeing this I think you had something running in background using your CPU while you where running int tests. if you loock at bm/results/log (log.accum if you did some other run recently) should find lines like: Arithmetic Test (type = int)|10.0|lps|227163.1|227158.7|6 that is a little more interesting if you are under load. > Arithmetic Test (type = float) 210562.7 lps 208476.4 lps > Arithmetic Test (type = double) 210385.9 lps 208443.3 lps > System Call Overhead Test 407402.6 lps 397276.7 lps > >Pipe Throughput Test 476268.6 lps 434561.9 lps > >Pipe-based Context Switching Test 218969.9 lps 148653.5 lps this could vary because of a lot of factors, starting from a bad page colouring going to sendmail activity. > >Process Creation Test 9078.6 lps 5422.1 lps > Execl Throughput Test 998.0 lps 771.6 lps this is interesting, but seeing previous results about int and short, I am curious about your real load. I am quite curious if with 2.5 you are using kernel preemption. > File Read (10 seconds) 1571652.0 KBps 1553289.0 KBps > File Write (10 seconds) 109237.0 KBps 132002.0 KBps > >File Copy (10 seconds) 24329.0 KBps 17994.0 KBps > File Read (30 seconds) 1562505.0 KBps 1540682.0 KBps > File Write (30 seconds) 113152.0 KBps 137781.0 KBps > File Copy (30 seconds) 14334.0 KBps 11460.0 KBps I saw the save with IDE disks... again, are you using kernel preemption? > C Compiler Test 470.9 lpm 450.9 lpm > Shell scripts (1 concurrent) 980.4 lpm 876.7 lpm > Shell scripts (2 concurrent) 544.1 lpm 480.3 lpm > Shell scripts (4 concurrent) 287.0 lpm 251.0 lpm > Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 147.0 lpm 126.0 lpm In my tests generally shell scripts are faster with 2.5 kernel. > >Dc: sqrt(2) to 99 decimal places 42311.6 lpm 33530.4 lpm > Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi 18915.4 lps 18514.3 lps > > > INDEX VALUES 2.4.19 2.5 > TEST INDEX INDEX > > Arithmetic Test (type = double) 82.8 82.0 > Dhrystone 2 without register variables 67.0 66.5 > Execl Throughput Test 60.5 46.8 > File Copy (30 seconds) 80.1 64.0 > Pipe-based Context Switching Test 166.1 112.7 > Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 36.8 31.5 > ========= ========= > SUM of 6 items 493.2 403.6 > AVERAGE 82.2 67.3 > Luigi > -- > http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services > http://www.tk the dot in .tk > http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/