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

[Iain Lane]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Mirco Müller <mirco.mueller at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
>        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?
>
> Best regards ...
>
> Mirco
>

Hi,

This is interesting, and I'm glad that they haven't tried to point
fingers at Ubuntu for this. Do you know of any similar tests for other
distros, so we can see if there is an across-the-board problem?

Iain