Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:50:31 -0700 | | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | | Subject | Re: what processor family does intel core duo L2400 belong to? |
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On 6/8/06, George Nychis <gnychis@cmu.edu> wrote: > Put me in your shoes, what would you test to see which one is the true > choice?
I'd start by seeing which one (if either) will boot the system (with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC disabled). In the past, when I've had trouble deciding, this has actually eliminated more possibilities than you might expect.
Beyond that, I don't know for certain what I would test with. Perhaps I'd start with lmbench, or if I was using the system for 3D stuff, perhaps framerates from glxgears or a 3D game. If I was using the system for network stuff, I'd run network benchmarks. (Perhaps disk benchmarks would be good too, but my experience is that network performance tends to suffer first and/or more severely, especially if Gigabit Ethernet or slow CPU's are involved.)
If both choices boot, the performance difference may be quite small. -- -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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