From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 03:07:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C204D16A4D5 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:07:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from leguin.anholt.net (69-30-77-85.dq1sn.easystreet.com [69.30.77.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC0643D39 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:07:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from leguin.anholt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leguin.anholt.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1B37KUx045412; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: (from anholt@localhost) by leguin.anholt.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1B37J0r045411; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: leguin.anholt.net: anholt set sender to eta@lclark.edu using -f From: Eric Anholt To: Mike Silbersack In-Reply-To: <20050210022849.I1169@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20050210022849.I1169@odysseus.silby.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:07:18 -0800 Message-Id: <1108091238.852.110.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any X11 benchmarks out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:07:21 -0000 On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:31 -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > Since the topic of general system benchmarks and MySQL benchmarks has come > up again recently, I was wondering if anyone is aware of any X11 > benchmarks. While X11 performance would certainly be greatly dependent on > your video card, I could also see how it would stress IPC and the > scheduler, as the benchmark application handed off commands to the X11 > server. So, if there's a good benchmark, it would be useful in comparing > 5.3 to 4.11 to linux, etc. > > The only X11 benchmark I could find in my quick searching is xbench, which > is very old and doesn't appear to want to build (I didn't try to figure > out why, I hate makefiles.) > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/xbench-0.2-src.tar.gz > > Is anyone aware of something more modern? The standard tool for benchmarking 2D X stuff is x11perf. It tests lots of core protocol stuff, i.e. not the stuff that's really important in terms of performance these days. These days the X Server is spending a lot more time grubbing around in framebuffer memory (really, really slow) due to the lack of Render acceleration. 3D probably isn't important to test, as it's all done client-side (almost no IPC) if you've got acceleration. And never use glxgears for benchmarking the 3d drivers or I will have to beat you senseless. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org