Re: amd64 Interbench Results

From: Gabriel Devenyi
Date: Wed Jul 20 2005 - 17:46:34 EST


If these are reasonable numbers, is there any methods available to improve the
responsiveness of X? I find I can't get smooth drawing, both scrolling text
(in konsole) and dragging windows around, yields "skips" where the drawing
isn't fluid.

Secondly, what are the suggested settings for preempt in the ck kernel
configuration?

Thanks for your time.

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Gabriel Devenyi
ace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On July 20, 2005 00:42, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:46 pm, Gabriel Devenyi wrote:
> > I've been using the the -ck patchset for a very long time, and I recently
> > switched to a amd64 arch. I found that while my throughput improved, my
> > system responsiveness has "felt" much lower than it did on my old x86
> > machine.
> >
> > Now that interbench is around, I have some quantitative results. Attached
> > is my interbench results with *nothing* running other than agetty and a
> > single bash console. My system is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+,
> > with 1gig DDR400 RAM. Also attached is my kernel config.
> >
> > Seems to me there are some pretty high latencies for such a powerful
> > system, is there anything I can do to improve this? Thanks for all your
> > help.
>
> Those results don't look too bad to me. Absolute numbers don't mean much in
> their own right unless you compare them to something else. Try a vanilla
> kernel and then compare the results side by side.
>
> Cheers,
> Con
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