On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Martin Olsson <mar...@minimum.se> wrote:
> Randy Appleton wrote: > > What tests would be most useful? It has been suggested to me... > > > > - Time to boot > > I think this one is important, but it's also > very carefully analyzed by many others already. > You have seen this right? > http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png > Yep. And it's exactly the right tool. I take suggestions for any more tools too. > > > - Time to resume from sleep > > I think this one is the most interesting. In particular > it seems that Apple has done a great job with this on > their latest OS (in particular how fast they retrieve > an DHCP ip address when resuming). Many Linux distros > take a few seconds extra before you can actually use > a web browser for example, after resume. > > > - Time to login > > Same as boot? However, time from login prompt to fully > loaded desktop is more interesting. The latest Ubuntu > version has something called sreadahead though which > should probably not be counted towards the total time > because the sreadahead process runs with very low CPU > and IO priorities. But something like "from login prompt > until all icons on the desktop is rendered" or "from login > prompt until the Applications menu in GNOME is opened". > Yes, this is exactly what I mean. Sorry I was unclear. > It would also be interesting to see how these measurements > different when certain input variables change. For example, > when there is 1, 10, 100 or 1000 icons on the desktop, > how does the corresponding time grow? linearly? quadratically? > or even exponentially? > I don't know. Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? I could do no icons and 20 icons. That might be interesting. Alternatively if number of desktop icons has no real impact, then I report that. > > > - Time to find a file using the default search tool > > Depends a lot on harddrive speed, number of and size of > the documents, how they are organized into folders etc. > I think it would be hard to get useful data out of this one. > It would also depend on which tool each distribution uses. I *think* Sues uses beagle and Ubuntu and Fedora uses trackerd. If so, I would expect performance differences. > > - Time to load a document in OpenOffice > > This could turn out to be interesting if some input > variable was modified during repeated benchmarks. > For example, how does the load time grow when the > number of pages the document has increases? > > > - Time to view a folder with 1,000 documents in it. > > This one is another good one. Here I also would like > to know how the time grows for 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 > documents. > It occurs to me it would also matter if the folder has been previously visited and had the icons made, or if it's a new folder (like a memorystick) that needs to get it's icons made. This could also be interesting, even though updating > the distro is a much more rare task for the user (hopefully!) > Thanks for the suggestions. I'd love to hear more suggestions from you (or anyone else). -Randy Appleton
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