<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Martin Olsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@minimum.se" target="_blank">martin@minimum.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Randy Appleton wrote:<br> > What tests would be most useful? It has been suggested to me...<br> ><br> > - Time to boot<br> <br> </div>I think this one is important, but it's also<br> very carefully analyzed by many others already.<br> You have seen this right?<br> <a href="http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png" target="_blank">http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png</a><br></blockquote></div><div><br>Yep. And it's exactly the right tool. I take suggestions for any more tools too.<br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><br> > - Time to resume from sleep<br> <br> </div>I think this one is the most interesting. In particular<br> it seems that Apple has done a great job with this on<br> their latest OS (in particular how fast they retrieve<br> an DHCP ip address when resuming). Many Linux distros<br> take a few seconds extra before you can actually use<br> a web browser for example, after resume.<br> <br> > - Time to login<br> <br> Same as boot? However, time from login prompt to fully<br> loaded desktop is more interesting. The latest Ubuntu<br> version has something called sreadahead though which<br> should probably not be counted towards the total time<br> because the sreadahead process runs with very low CPU<br> and IO priorities. But something like "from login prompt<br> until all icons on the desktop is rendered" or "from login<br> prompt until the Applications menu in GNOME is opened".<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Yes, this is exactly what I mean. Sorry I was unclear. <br></div><div class="im"><div><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It would also be interesting to see how these measurements<br> different when certain input variables change. For example,<br> when there is 1, 10, 100 or 1000 icons on the desktop,<br> how does the corresponding time grow? linearly? quadratically?<br> or even exponentially?<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I don't know. Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? I could do no icons and 20 icons. That might be interesting. Alternatively if number of desktop icons has no real impact, then I report that.<br> <br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><br> > - Time to find a file using the default search tool<br> <br> </div>Depends a lot on harddrive speed, number of and size of<br> the documents, how they are organized into folders etc.<br> I think it would be hard to get useful data out of this one.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>It would also depend on which tool each distribution uses. I *think* Sues uses beagle and Ubuntu and Fedora uses trackerd. If so, I would expect performance differences.<br> </div><div class="im"><div><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> > - Time to load a document in OpenOffice<br> <br> </div>This could turn out to be interesting if some input<br> variable was modified during repeated benchmarks.<br> For example, how does the load time grow when the<br> number of pages the document has increases?<br> <div><br> > - Time to view a folder with 1,000 documents in it.<br> <br> </div>This one is another good one. Here I also would like<br> to know how the time grows for 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000<br> documents.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>It occurs to me it would also matter if the folder has been previously visited and had the icons made, or if it's a new folder (like a memorystick) that needs to get it's icons made.<br> <br><br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This could also be interesting, even though updating<br> the distro is a much more rare task for the user (hopefully!)<br></blockquote></div></div><br><br>Thanks for the suggestions. I'd love to hear more suggestions from you (or anyone else).<br><font color="#888888"><br> -Randy Appleton</font>