[OS X TeX] Please test this: (Modified by Gerben Wierda)
Claus Gerhardt
gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Aug 24 00:47:37 CEST 2005
Here is my result
G5 at 2.5GHz (CPU settings automatic, 2.87GB free memory, 10.4.2) 12.78
real 9.26 user 3.23 sys
I used the command
sudo time /Users/claus/Library/Flashmode/bin/tex-perf
Claus
On Aug 24, 2005, at 0:13, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2005, at 23:37, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>
>> Le 22 août 05 à 02:03, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> I would be interested in getting results from the fllowing test:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>
>> Adding my result to the preceding ones:
>>
>> 2.0Ghz Dual G5 PowerMac 10.4.2 17.03 real 13.08 user 3.88
>> sys (Ralph)
>> 1.5Ghz G4 PowerBook 10.4.2 27.58 real 18.57 user 4.90
>> sys (Ralph)
>> 1.0GHz G4 PowerBook 10.4.2 37.69 real 26.24 user 5.07
>> sys (Bruno)
>> 800MHz G4 eMac 10.4.2 46.30 real 27.45 user 11.02
>> sys (Norm)
>> 500MHz G4 Cube 10.3.9 Server 48.05 real 29.43 user 7.98
>> sys (Gerben)
>> 1.2GHz G4 iBook 10.4.2 56.60 real 44.75 user 8.48
>> sys (Gerben)
>>
>> Happy Ralph!
>>
>> I'm surprised Gerben's iBook, with higher clock frequency than my
>> PowerBook, runs actually slower. Could it be caused by other
>> concurrent processes? Or by the amount of RAM (mine has been
>> upgraded to 1GB)? Or the rest of the hardware (caches etc.)?
>>
>
> The disk is really, really slow. I'd like a larger/faster one in
> this iBook. What I find surprising is how fast my Cube is compared
> to the powerbooks and eMac. Here too, the disk is probably the
> culprit (I am running a fast disk with 8MB cache).
>
> Note: to compare add user and sys. Forget about real (the
> difference is spent in other programs). Except when you are running
> on Mactel and are using ppc binaries, in that case a lot of time is
> spent in another process (Rosetta) which is not reported this way
> and real is all you got.
>
> G
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