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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: x11perf on XFree86,386bsd:data
Message-ID: <1992Oct14.093034.25042@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:30:34 GMT
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I ran x11perf using 386bsd 0.1 and XFree386:
The results are as below.
This result that et4000 is faster by 17%, using speed-up mode. The mode is
640X480, 256 colors.
This x11perf cannot run on X386mono server.
eoahmad# x11perf -bigtilerect500
x11perf - X11 performance program, version 1.3
MIT X Consortium server on :0.0
from eoahmad
Trident 8900C based SVGA card, on no brand 386DX-25, 8Mbyte RAM,
conner 200Mbyte IDE hd.
Sync time adjustment is 5.3879 msecs.
10 reps @ 546.4612 msec ( 1.8/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
10 reps @ 568.4612 msec ( 1.8/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
10 reps @ 554.4612 msec ( 1.8/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
10 reps @ 546.4612 msec ( 1.8/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
10 reps @ 547.4612 msec ( 1.8/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
50 trep @ 552.6612 msec ( 1.8/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
ET4000 based Tseng Lab International 64K color card(Topview), on
Data Mini 386DX-25 no cache, 16Mbyte RAM, conner 200Mbyte ide hd
20 reps @ 468.7284 msec ( 2.1/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
20 reps @ 469.2284 msec ( 2.1/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
20 reps @ 478.7284 msec ( 2.1/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
20 reps @ 469.2284 msec ( 2.1/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
20 reps @ 469.2284 msec ( 2.1/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
100 trep @ 471.0284 msec ( 2.1/sec): 500x500 161x145 tiled rectangle
Please send me results for other X terminals using
the same parameter i.e. bigtilerect500.
Let us see how slow 386 systems really are. I notice that the xterm
running on my Pc display text very quickly, in fact faster than even the
Sparc Workstations.
However when I run heavy background jobs such as this x11perf in the
background, other tasks cannot run any more. They virtually stop. The keyboard
and mouse simple cannot respond. This problem is not due to the X display,
rather to the scheduling of tasks.
--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet