I'll try to benchmark it again in single user mode later today or tomorrow.
But to support this VIA CPUs, I must say that for their apparent lack of
performance in benchmarks, they run surprinsingly well in real life. If
FreeBSD or Windows, this machine of rather low manufacturing quality (Yakumo
is not the best of the best) is considerably faster than my Fujitsu Siemens
laptop with PIII 850MHz which has the same HDD and amount of RAM etc...
Actually the VIA C3 architecture seems to perform very well in real
situations, as I have worked for some projects on this machine and it was
quite ok. Maybe it is a consequence of its all-in-one motherboard chips,
because everything from video to sound and network is integrated, and might
give it this "boost" (just a thought).
From the benchmarks you would expect this machine to be really slow, but it
is not, I am actually quite happy with it, some Pentium M based laptops
around 1.4-1.6GHz I've used felt slower (if Celerons) or about the
same...Some, though, felt much faster... But this is definitely usable as a
home server or anything alike, I don't think you can that easy "overwork"
the CPU with normal tasks, unless you have thousands and thousands of hits
on your websites...
ANdrei
http://students.oamk.fi/~t6ruan00/
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Quiet computer
> Well, it would be nice to get a general idea about performance of a
> C3...
> Can you run a UNIX benchmark ('ubench' in ports) on that laptop? Don't
> worry about getting really accurate readings, it's not that important.
> And maybe post the results to the hardware@ list -- I'm sure someone
> else will be interested.
Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri Jun 16 09:21:34 PDT
2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSDv1.11 i386
Ubench CPU: 15374
Ubench MEM: 21651
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Ubench AVG: 18512
Hm, this is not impressive at all. In fact, quite disappointed i am (but
then, I really expected a miracle, I suppose). OTOH, the chip _is_ low
power, and should be good enough for any 'home server' type machine
(or even an embedded system). Hopefully VIA's newer CPUs are better.
But CPU score looks far too low... Could you test it in single-user
mode, just to be sure? I stil have some hope ;)
Compare to the scores of dual-CPU P133 (>95% idle) heavy metal I use
now as a server:
Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan i386
Ubench CPU: 11911
Ubench MEM: 4572
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Ubench AVG: 8241
And Pent 4 Northwood 2.4GHz workstation with 800 cycles/sec RAMBUS memory
(rather well loaded, upscale scores by at least 11%):
Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Aug 25 02:55:08 PDT 2006
Ubench CPU: 73144
Ubench MEM: 93751
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Ubench AVG: 83447
VIA C3 1GHz processor (133x7.5) on a Yakumo laptop, I didn't enable any
power management (the kernel is the one that CPBSD comes with to
install).
Oh, yeah, this laptop has PCBSD on it, but I guess it's no change to the
kernel etc regarding to FreeBSD 6.1
I was no doing anything with the laptop by the time of benchmarking, but
KDE
was running (and idling).
RAM is 256MB DDR266. The laptop was plugged in to the AC adapter.
hope this helps someone. Any other benchmarking is possible, but I might
not
get the time immediately to do it ;) just ask me what you want. this is a
total test machine anyway ;)
ANdrei
http://students.oamk.fi/~t6ruan00/
[SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2
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