Comparing 2 Notebooks running Linux

[Bill Fink]

On Sat Aug 3 2002, Chris Ruprecht wrote:

> I'm trying to compare the usefullness of two machines, the contesters are=
> :
> PowerBook G4/667, 30 GB Toshiba HDD, 512 MB RAM, 667 MHz G4
> Acer TravelMate 521TXV, 40 GB Toshiba HDD (30 for Linux), 512 MB RAM, 600=
>  Mhz=20
> Pentium-III
> 
> The Mac is running YDL 2.3, the Acer runs RedHat 7.3 + all the patches.
> 
> I have configured both of the machines virtually identical, as gar as tht=
>  is=20
> possible. I want to check the speeds on both of these machines, see which=
>  one=20
> does things the best way. I started a database load into a PostgreSQL=20
> database, which is very disk intensive. The Acer is currently much more=20
> responsive, the PowerBook is very very sluggish - hmmmm - the Powerbook i=
> s=20
> mine, whereas the Acer belongs to my employer ... So, clearly, I want the=
> =20
> PowerBook to come out the winner in this contest, but for now, It looks l=
> ike=20
> the Acer is doing a little better.
> 
> Does anybody know of any other objective tests I can run to compare the t=
> wo?

Hi Chris,

You could check out nbench and/or lmbench.

			-Bill