Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:22:22 +0300 From: "ANdrei" <lists@hausro.de> To: <soralx@cydem.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quiet computer Message-ID: <06c301c6d70d$bca78640$857ba8c0@Rage> References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com><200609060053.24955.soralx@cydem.org><044a01c6d661$1919c990$857ba8c0@Rage> <200609122249.18405.soralx@cydem.org>
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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/ ------ Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience... ----- Original Message ----- From: <soralx@cydem.org> To: <Undisclosed.Recipients:> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> 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 <sv@phystech.com> >> 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 root@PCBSD.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSDv1.11 i386 >> Ubench CPU: 15374 >> Ubench MEM: 21651 >> -------------------- >> 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 <sv@phystech.com> > 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 > -------------------- > 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 <sv@phystech.com> > 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 > -------------------- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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