Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:07:18 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any X11 benchmarks out there? Message-ID: <1108091238.852.110.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20050210022849.I1169@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20050210022849.I1169@odysseus.silby.com>
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On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:31 -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > Since the topic of general system benchmarks and MySQL benchmarks has come > up again recently, I was wondering if anyone is aware of any X11 > benchmarks. While X11 performance would certainly be greatly dependent on > your video card, I could also see how it would stress IPC and the > scheduler, as the benchmark application handed off commands to the X11 > server. So, if there's a good benchmark, it would be useful in comparing > 5.3 to 4.11 to linux, etc. > > The only X11 benchmark I could find in my quick searching is xbench, which > is very old and doesn't appear to want to build (I didn't try to figure > out why, I hate makefiles.) > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/xbench-0.2-src.tar.gz > > Is anyone aware of something more modern? The standard tool for benchmarking 2D X stuff is x11perf. It tests lots of core protocol stuff, i.e. not the stuff that's really important in terms of performance these days. These days the X Server is spending a lot more time grubbing around in framebuffer memory (really, really slow) due to the lack of Render acceleration. 3D probably isn't important to test, as it's all done client-side (almost no IPC) if you've got acceleration. And never use glxgears for benchmarking the 3d drivers or I will have to beat you senseless. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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