Benchmark

[Ivan Voras]

Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:


I have run bytebench on a machine running FreeBSD 5.2 and
DragonFly (this is old hardware: dual PII @333MHz). I am going to
install FreeBSD 4.9 on a third slice to have another comparison
point. Here are the (surprizing) results:



                     INDEX VALUES           --------- FreeBSD 5.2 --------   --------- DragonFly --------
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX   BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX
                                                                                                           
Arithmetic Test (type = double)               2541.7    83469.8       32.8     2541.7    87920.3       34.6
Dhrystone 2 without register variables       22366.3   541309.1       24.2    22366.3   659275.7       29.5
Execl Throughput Test                           16.5       74.7        4.5       16.5      205.6       12.5
File Copy  (30 seconds)                        179.0     4253.0       23.8      179.0    17668.0       98.7
Pipe-based Context Switching Test             1318.5     7595.1        5.8     1318.5    19020.8       14.4
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                     4.0       43.9       11.0        4.0      106.3       26.6
                                                                 =========                        =========
     SUM of  6 items                                                 102.1                            216.2
     AVERAGE                                                          17.0                             36.0
Maybe you should check if your computer time runs at the same speed as 
wall time?