Benchmarks Archive

Benchmarking Filesystems: JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, ext3

Submitted by anonymous 2004-05-10 Benchmarks 49 Comments

"The conclusion is obvious by the "Total Time For All Benchmarks Test." The best journaling file system to choose based upon these results would be: JFS, ReiserFS or XFS depending on your needs and what types of files you are dealing with. I was quite surprised how slow ext3 was overall, as many distributions use this file system as their default file system. Overall, one should choose the best file system based upon the properties of the files they are dealing with for the best performance possible!" Read the whole article at the LinuxGazette.

Test Driving Virtual PC 2004

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-02-27 Benchmarks 10 Comments

Here is a look at Virtual PC 2004's performace. It's put to the test by using the PassMark benchmark.

Benchmark: Linux 2.6 and Hyper-Threading

Eugenia Loli 2004-02-24 Benchmarks 26 Comments

"Anyone who's ever set out to perform Linux benchmarks quickly realizes the difficulties involved in such an undertaking, not only with the availability of quality benchmarks (or lack thereof), but also in the way the test system(s) are configured. Most of the Linux benchmarks that I see on hardware review sites are simple things like kernel compiles or povray... maybe a game benchmark or two." 2CPU.com gets serious over Linux benchmarking on the web.

SPARC Optimizations With GCC

Guest post by Tony Bourke 2004-02-23 Benchmarks 22 Comments

In continuing with my articles exploring the my SPARC-based Sun Ultra 5, I'm going to cover the topic of compiler optimizations on the SPARC platform. While many are familiar with GCC compiler optimizations for the x86 platform, there are naturally differences for GCC on SPARC, and some platform-specific issues to keep in mind.

Virtual PC 2004 vs. VMWare 4: Benchmarking Part II

Submitted by Hernán Di Pietro 2004-02-07 Benchmarks 21 Comments

Following the previous benchmarking article between the two classic virtual machines, Hernán Di Pietro wrote the 2nd part of the article, where WinXP is used as a guest. Check out the new results.

VirtualPC 2004 vs. VMWare 4 Performance Review

Submitted by Hernán Di Pietro 2004-02-03 Benchmarks 39 Comments

This is a performance comparison between two well-known "virtualization" software packages: Virtual PC 2004 (free trial version) and VMWare Workstation 4.0.

Benchmark Competition for Open Source Operating Systems

Submitted by Brandon Philips 2004-02-02 Benchmarks 50 Comments

OSU Open Source Lab wanted to take the concept of benchmarking a little bit further with the Beaver Challenge 2004. In this competition they will be allowing a community of experts in each OS to tweak their configurations to ensure maximum performance.

GNU GCC versus Sun’s Compiler in the SPARC Platform

Guest post by Tony Bourke 2004-01-28 Benchmarks 38 Comments

When doing research for my evaluation of Solaris 9 on my Ultra 5, I kept running into one comment over and over again: Sun's C compiler produces much faster code than GCC does. However, I couldn't find one set of benchmarks to back this up. (If you know of any, drop me an email.) Could this be yet another case of rumor-taken-as-fact?

Are 64-bit Binaries Really Slower than 32-bit Binaries?

Guest post by Tony Bourke 2004-01-22 Benchmarks 70 Comments

When running tests, installing operating systems, and compiling software for my Ultra 5, I came to the stunning realization that hey, this system is 64-bit, and all of the operating systems I installed on this Ultra 5 (can) run in 64-bit mode.

Extended C++ (Intel, MS), Java(1.4, 1.5) and C# Benchmarks

Submitted by Thomas Bruckschlegel 2004-01-15 Benchmarks 36 Comments

Thomas Bruckschlegel extended the language benchmarks from our previous article with some other benchmarks. Check it out here. Bascule did so too.

Sun Versus Linux: The x86 Smack-down

Guest post by Tony Bourke 2003-10-20 Benchmarks 100 Comments

Sun has really shifted gears lately with regards to Solaris, SPARC, and x86. For many years, Sun seemed to relegate Solaris x86 to the status of red-headed stepchild, undeserving of attention, nurturing, and support. It furthered this perception when in January of 2002, Sun announced it would not release Solaris 9, the newest upcoming Solaris operating system, on the x86 platform. Solaris 9 was to be a (more lucrative) SPARC-only platform release.

Linux vs. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Scalability Compared

Submitted by Bascule 2003-10-19 Benchmarks 81 Comments

These benchmarks are the result of a scalable network programming research. The interest in this area is to see how scalable and fast network applications can be on standard PC hardware. Linux 2.4/2.6 is compared to BSDs. Read the accompanied PDF paper here.

Cinebench Benchmarks: Intel, AMD Vs G5 2GHz MP

Submitted by Kelly McNeill 2003-10-17 Benchmarks 62 Comments

BareFeats has compiled the results of a comparative test utilizing Cinebenc, the best cross-platform benchmarking application the market has to offer.It is interesting to see how the MP 2GHz Opteron and Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz MT compared against the MP 2GHz G5. Here is also a previous benchmark session at Barefeats which was updated recently.

Athlon 64 vs. Apple G5 Systems: Not Even Close

Submitted by Prognathous 2003-10-14 Benchmarks 75 Comments

"Apple Power Macs did well on Photoshop, but the 64-bit AMD-based systems won handily on most tests", says PCWorld.

Loading Benchmarks between Mandrake and Gentoo Linux

Submitted by Prakash Shetty 2003-10-07 Benchmarks 53 Comments

Heres a snip from the Gentoo weekly newsletter: Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez gave a presentation at HispaLinux 2003 where he demonstrated the load-time performance of the official Gentoo Linux 1.4 release. Gentoo Linux 1.4 for Pentium III, with and without prelink, were compared with a default Mandrake 9.1 installation on a Pentium III. The results - Gentoo Linux 1.4 with prelink did better than Mandrake 9.1 across the board, and even without prelinking Mozilla loaded nearly twice as quickly in Gentoo, and NetBeans loaded more than twice as fast.

SciTech SNAP Graphics: Commercial Drivers For XFree86

Submitted by Jem Matzan 2003-09-26 Benchmarks 33 Comments

Here's a review of SciTech's new SNAP Graphics 2.0 for GNU/Linux. It's a hassle-free video driver program for X that gets excellent 2D performance. When SciTech implements hardware 3D rendering it's going to revolutionize XFree86 Linux drivers. Read the review for the benchmarks and details.

Benchmark: PowerMac G4/G5 Vs P4, Dual Xeon & Dual Athlon

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-05 Benchmarks 52 Comments

The benchmark at Barefeats -- Power Mac G4 and G5 versus Pentium 4, Dual Xeon, and Dual Athlon -- has being updated to include new information and tests.

Benchmarks: Test of 6 Linux Fs; Panther Faster even on G3s

Submitted by Prognathous 2003-07-30 Benchmarks 58 Comments

Here is a small benchmark test, testing various filesystems. Elsewhere, 10.3 Panther is tested on an iMac G3 600 Mhz and --except the reduced OpenGL performance (possibly because of changes in the QuartzExtreme that this iMac does not support with its ATi Rage Pro card)-- it is showing to be overall faster than 10.2 according to the XBench test suite. Update: More benchmarks. HP released new server speed-test results Wednesday that for the first time compare its version of Unix with Windows on the company's top-end Itanium server--and Unix came out ahead.

G5/2GHz MP Performance Data compared to the G4/1.42GHz MP

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-22 Benchmarks 115 Comments

Bare Feats has some interesting benchmarks to show: Fastest G5 so far to the fastest G4 MP. G5 is much faster on memory operations, but not all operations are faster than the G4. Bare Feats says that until developers optimize their code for the G5, users won't see G5 being speedier than G4 on all tests. Same thing happens with all new CPUs though, including the P4s which included a new instruction set and developers had to compile for it in order to take advantage of what it really had to offer.

Pentium4 Compiler Comparison Shows ICC 7.1 as Best Performer

Submitted by Prognathous 2003-06-30 Benchmarks 60 Comments

Frank Schoondermark has posted an overview of compiler performance with the FLOPS benchmark. FLOPS is a synthetic benchmark to measure floating-point performance in isolation. According to the test, the best compiler for full Pentium4/SSE2 optimizations is by far Intel's ICC 7.1.

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