Re: How to measure boot time in bochs?

I tried using Bochs Cf .bochsrc.winxp Cbenchmark 4000 .

But I don't know how to figure out the number 4000.


2013/4/30 Stanislav <[email protected]>

> I will explain how do I measure it.****
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> First of all you could always measure the host wall clock but now comes a
> question how can you make sure you measure equal work.****
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> I use fixed disk image (volatile format to make sure it doesn’t change
> between experiments) and fixed .bochsrc configuration file.****
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> Then I use Cbenchmark N option of Bochs. ****
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> With this option Bochs runs exactly N million emulated cycles and closes
> itself so you could measure equal work always.****
>
> For example to boot WinXP it is enough to run 4B = 4000M emulated ticks
> (or instructions because in Bochs every instruction count a tick except
> when CPU is halted).****
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> So for WinXP boot time measurement I was using:****
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> Bochs Cf .bochsrc.winxp Cbenchmark 4000****
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> Stanislav****
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> *From:* 朱朱乐乐 [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 29, 2013 3:51 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Bochs-developers] How to measure boot time in bochs?****
>
> ** **
>
> I am tring to conduct a performance optimizing experiment and I want to
> measure the boot time of Linux distro such as Fedora 18.****
>

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