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

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:49 +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> 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?

Surely the same test suite can be run on all distros you want to check?
kk

> 
> Iain
> 
-- 
Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au>
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