On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Alecks Gates <aleck...@gmail.com> wrote: -snip- > > I have just started the process of installing Gentoo from scratch on > on my 2GB RAM machine, and am going to fully compare the two, probably > using Phoronix Test Suite unless someone here can give me some other > recommendations -- I don't do benchmarking and I like how you can do > the comparisons with OpenBenchmarking.org. Hopefully Phornoix Test > Suite runs properly, I suppose I'll have to install php and the like. > > Anyway, I don't think anyone addressed this. What would be the > best/cleanest/quickest way to switch from x86-64 to x32 ABI? I'm > planning on just backing up the partition once I've got the x86-64 > ready to go and doing a new from scratch install with x32... but I'd > love to know about an easier way. > > Alecks
What would be the most worthwhile benchmarks to run, both inside and outside of Phoronix Test Suite? I figured I should ask since I don't have much knowledge on the subject and this stuff is new to me. Also there is there some automated method of measuring RAM usage? Alecks
