Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:28:58 -0400 | From | George Nychis <> | Subject | Re: what processor family does intel core duo L2400 belong to? |
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Barry K. Nathan wrote: > 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.
Both booted... I was hoping this would be a lot more straight forward :P I am getting the feeling that pentium-m might outperform... my true P4 computer is in family 15, whereas my PIII is in family 6, just like the Core Duo L2400 - 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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