Benchmarks

Benchmarks

How fast is Athlon 2500+ machine under Linux?

System Configuration

This system consists of Athlon XP 2500+ CPU with FSB 333 MHz, L1 cache 64/64 KB, and L2 cache 512 KB. The main memory is 512 MB. The operating system is RedHat 9.0 Linux on 5400 rpm hard disk. The table below shows the system configuration in more detail.

CPU	Athlon XP 2500+
FSB	333 MHz
Cache	L1 64 KB/64 KB, L2 512 KB
Memory	DDR-SDRAM 512 MB, PC-2700, 6 ns
Hard Disk	Maxtor 31 GB, 5400 rpm
OS	RedHat 9.0, kernel-2.4.20-28.9

Here is LPT based report on system configuration.

`unixbench` Benchmarks

The unixbench benchmarks are shown below.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

server: Athlon 2500+
client: Athlon 2500+
communication: unix-socket
notes: Athlon 2500+, 64+64/512 MB cache, 512 MB main memory, 5200 rpm hard disk

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SERVER INFORMATION

Servervendor            : The XFree86 Project, Inc
XSERVER version         : 11.40300000
Revision                : 0
Defaultdepth rootwindow : 16
Server Byte-Order       : LSBFirst
Server BitmapBitOrder   : LSBFirst
DisplayWidth            : 800
DisplayHeight           : 600

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XBENCH INFORMATION
VERSION: 2 TIMEGOAL = 10 sec; NRUNS = 3

TOTAL   1282815 lineStones
TOTAL    398372 fillStones
TOTAL    325017 blitStones
TOTAL  54482451 arcStones
TOTAL   9588571 textStones
TOTAL    749346 complexStones
TOTAL    753849 xStones

Here is the complete output of unixbench.

unixbench results

`BYTE UNIX Benchmarks` Benchmarks

                     INDEX VALUES            
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        116700.0  4325361.6      370.6
Double-Precision Whetstone                      55.0     1134.4      206.3
Execl Throughput                                43.0     3711.8      863.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         3960.0   230602.0      582.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1655.0   168694.0     1019.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks         5800.0   252380.0      435.1
Pipe Throughput                              12440.0  1356469.2     1090.4
Pipe-based Context Switching                  4000.0   471947.4     1179.9
Process Creation                               126.0    11575.7      918.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                     6.0      919.0     1531.7
System Call Overhead                         15000.0  1063191.6      708.8
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     FINAL SCORE                                                     706.4

Here is the complete output of BYTE UNIX Benchmarks .

BYTE UNIX Benchmarks results

Hard Disk Performance

One of the possible ways to improve system performance is to increase hard disk read capability. One simple way to do so, is to locate the data in the hard disk properly. The read capability of a hard disk differs when the data is stored at the beginning of the hard disk,from the one at the end.

Here is an experiment with hdparm -t [device]. The table below shows the results. /dev/hda1 is located at the beginning, /dev/hda2 comes second, and /dev/hda3 is at the end of the hard disk. The figures show clearly that the data transfer is much faster when it is stored in /dev/hda1. This is where the swap and the system files should be.

Table 1. Hard Disk Performance Comparison, in MB/sec

Figure 1. Hard Disk Performance Comparison, in MB/sec

The fourth figure /dev/hdb1 is 7200 rpm Hitachi DeskStar 120 GB hard disk, which shows the outstanding read performance.

References

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Erica Asai
Last Modifed: Thu Jan 22 09:39:30 2004

Benchmarks

System Configuration

unixbench Benchmarks

BYTE UNIX Benchmarks Benchmarks

Hard Disk Performance

References

`unixbench` Benchmarks

`BYTE UNIX Benchmarks` Benchmarks