Kirk, On Monday 10 October 2005 12:08, Kirk Coombs wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 9:14 am, Kirk Coombs wrote: > > I have a pentium III 600 i'll test it on. Again, not a 'typical' > > pc, but at least it's something. > > Okay, here are my results. > > I tried to duplicate nordi's situation -- autologin and get the > uptime after KDE starts. I also ran an external stopwatch from GRUB > to KDE start (when the uptime window appeared). Obviously the > stopwatch is prone to human error. > > I had a single swap and root partition, both on the same drive. > > Reiser: > uptime: 68.28 (68.78,68.39,70.37,65.59) > stopwatch: 77.11 (74.718,79.850,77.261,76.606) > > Ext3: > uptime: 62.905 (64.65,63.36,60.16,63.45) > stopwatch: 62.86 (63,61.883,62.820,63.766)
As with any "benchmark," it only tells you about how long it takes to run the benchmark. Everything else is an extrapolation, and probably an unwarranted one. In all likelihood, the activities during system start-up are not characteristic of those performed during normal operations. Measure the things you do routinely or that are bottlenecks in your ordinary, daily operations. If that's rebooting, then fine, but what's the typical user's ratio of reboots to days? For me it's a small number (in fact, one I try to make as small as possible). It probably does not often exceed one. > Conclusion: If basing the count on uptime, ext3 is 7.8% faster. If > basing it on total boot time, it is 18.4% faster. Conclusion: Booting on your system is from 7.8% to 18.4% faster as things stand at the moment. Any further conclusion is baseless and invalid. You just don't have the data to justify more. > ... > > Kirk Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
