performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc

[Michael Larabel]

Jeff Schroeder wrote:
>> From: Mirco M?ller <mirco.mueller at ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc
>>
>> Greetings everybody!
>>
>>        Phoronix ran performance tests on releases 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10rc.
>> 8.10 seems to be the worst performer of the quartet. Have a look at
>> their summarizing article:
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>>        http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bench_2008&num=1
>>
>>        They are trying to be fair and point out possible causes for the
>> slowdowns. While this has only been tested on a ThinkPad T60 their
>> initial findings are nothing to write home about. Most influential are
>> crucial parts like the kernel, gcc, Xorg, graphics-drivers.
>>
>> Time for alarm-bells to go off?
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> Well from a networking standpoint, the Linux kernel has been doing
> poorly as of late:
> http://www.ioremap.net/node/37
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> It looks like phoronix missed that aspect entirely :-/
>
>   
It's not that we avoided the network performance area but that there are 
no network test profiles currently written for the Phoronix Test Suite 
so that they could be conducted in an automated way. Though it shouldn't 
be too much of a problem to push a tbench profile in there so that it 
automatically gets picked up in the next round of tests.

Michael
>> Best regards ...
>>
>> Mirco
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