Linux Benchmarking HOWTO

4. Example run and results

The LBT was run on my home machine, a Pentium-class Linux box that I put together myself and that I used to write this HOWTO. Here is the LBT Report Form for this system:

LINUX BENCHMARKING TOOLKIT REPORT FORM

CPU 

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Vendor: Cyrix/IBM 

Model: 6x86L P166+

Core clock: 133 MHz

Motherboard vendor: Elite Computer Systems (ECS)

Mbd. model: P5VX-Be

Mbd. chipset: Intel VX

Bus type: PCI

Bus clock: 33 MHz

Cache total: 256 KB

Cache type/speed: Pipeline burst 6 ns

SMP (number of processors): 1

RAM 

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Total: 32 MB

Type: EDO SIMMs

Speed: 60 ns

Disk 

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Vendor: IBM

Model: IBM-DAQA-33240

Size: 3.2 GB

Interface: EIDE

Driver/Settings: Bus Master DMA mode 2

Video board 

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Vendor: Generic S3

Model: Trio64-V2

Bus: PCI

Video RAM type: EDO DRAM 

Video RAM total: 2 MB

X server vendor: XFree86

X server version: 3.3

X server chipset choice: S3 accelerated 

Resolution/vert. refresh rate: 1152x864  at  70 Hz

Color depth: 16 bits

Kernel 

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Version: 2.0.29

Swap size: 64 MB

gcc 

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Version: 2.7.2.1

Options: -O2

libc version: 5.4.23 

Test notes 

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Very light load. The above tests were run with some of the special 
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 features enabled with the setx86 program: fast ADS, 
fast IORT, Enable DTE, fast LOOP, fast Lin. VidMem.

RESULTS 

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Linux kernel 2.0.0 Compilation Time: 7m12s

Whetstones: 38.169 MWIPS. 

Xbench: 97243 xStones. 

BYTE Unix Benchmarks 4.01 system INDEX: 58.43

BYTEmark integer INDEX: 1.50

BYTEmark memory INDEX: 2.50

Comments

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This is a very stable system with homogeneous performance, ideal 
for home use and/or Linux development. I will report results 
with a 6x86MX processor as soon as I can get my hands on one!