From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 8:18: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adam.framatome.fr (adam.framatome.fr [192.44.46.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FA314C42 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:17:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ubc@paris.framatome.fr) Received: from localhost (ubc@localhost) by adam.framatome.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA28027; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:16:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:16:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Claude Buisson X-Sender: ubc@adam.framatome.fr To: Arcady Genkin Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 In-Reply-To: <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm not sure if it made to the list the last time, so I'll repost > benchmark results for that machine -- can you guys have a look and > tell me where the things are slower than they shoud be for an i486 DX4 > with 16M of RAM? > > ============================================================== > > BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11) > System -- door.wgaf.net > Start Benchmark Run: Thu Jul 1 07:32:18 EST 1999 > 3 interactive users. > Dhrystone 2 without register variables 4713.8 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Dhrystone 2 using register variables 6390.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh) 149278.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = register) 1746.4 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = short) 3861.1 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = int) 2211.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = long) 2211.1 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = float) 5517.4 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Arithmetic Test (type = double) 5573.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > System Call Overhead Test 1948.5 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Pipe Throughput Test 1624.5 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Pipe-based Context Switching Test 757.9 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Process Creation Test 72.0 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > Execl Throughput Test 41.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > File Read (10 seconds) 2908.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) > File Write (10 seconds) 600.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) > File Copy (10 seconds) 360.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) > File Read (30 seconds) 3140.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) > File Write (30 seconds) 533.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) > File Copy (30 seconds) 392.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) > C Compiler Test 7.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) > Shell scripts (1 concurrent) 11.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) > Shell scripts (2 concurrent) 5.3 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) > Shell scripts (4 concurrent) 2.6 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) > Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 1.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) > Dc: sqrt(2) to 99 decimal places 1324.3 lpm (60 secs, 6 samples) > Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi 71.9 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) > > INDEX VALUES > TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX > > Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 5573.2 2.2 > Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 4713.8 0.2 > Execl Throughput Test 16.5 41.2 2.5 > File Copy (30 seconds) 179.0 392.0 2.2 > Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 757.9 0.6 > Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 1.0 0.2 > ========= > SUM of 6 items 7.9 > AVERAGE 1.3 > > -- > Arcady Genkin > "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate > of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) > I have an old (Bull) Zenith with an i486 DX4 and 16M running 3.1-RELEASE: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #2: Mon Mar 22 11:34:48 CET 1999 root@cerbere.di.framatome.fr:/usr/src/sys/compile/CERBERE Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: i486 DX4 (486-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x480 Stepping=0 Features=0x3 real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) avail memory = 14401536 (14064K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf0226000. Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 on isa sc0: VGA color <4 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 maddr 0xd0000 msize 16384 on isa ed0: address 00:00:c0:6b:f4:a8, type SMC8216T (16 bit) ed1 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 maddr 0xd8000 msize 16384 on isa ed1: address 00:00:c0:82:f4:a8, type SMC8216T (16 bit) atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard atkbd0 irq 1 on isa psm0 irq 12 on isa psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16450 lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface lpt-266506628: this driver is deprecated; use ppbus instead. fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 1032MB (2113776 sectors), 2097 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface The bytebench from the port collection gives: BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11) System -- cerbere.di.framatome.fr Start Benchmark Run: Fri 2 Jul 15:45:14 CEST 1999 1 interactive users. Dhrystone 2 without register variables 55715.0 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Dhrystone 2 using register variables 55680.4 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh) 1755509.1 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = register) 13881.5 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = short) 14374.1 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = int) 13856.3 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = long) 13880.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = float) 8625.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Arithmetic Test (type = double) 8655.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) System Call Overhead Test 20095.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Pipe Throughput Test 13876.1 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching Test 6180.2 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Process Creation Test 244.7 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) Execl Throughput Test 155.0 lps (9 secs, 6 samples) File Read (10 seconds) 29854.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) File Write (10 seconds) 1400.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) File Copy (10 seconds) 1073.0 KBps (10 secs, 6 samples) File Read (30 seconds) 30405.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) File Write (30 seconds) 1400.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) File Copy (30 seconds) 1085.0 KBps (30 secs, 6 samples) C Compiler Test 43.3 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (1 concurrent) 34.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (2 concurrent) 17.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (4 concurrent) 8.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 lpm (60 secs, 3 samples) Dc: sqrt(2) to 99 decimal places 6194.1 lpm (60 secs, 6 samples) Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi 496.3 lps (10 secs, 6 samples) INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2541.7 8655.2 3.4 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 22366.3 55715.0 2.5 Execl Throughput Test 16.5 155.0 9.4 File Copy (30 seconds) 179.0 1085.0 6.1 Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 6180.2 4.7 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 4.0 1.0 ========= SUM of 6 items 27.0 AVERAGE 4.5 which is VERY different from your results. 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