Re: Best Hardware/OS for TeTeX?

Plamen Tanovski wrote:

> Thomas Esser wrote:
> 
> 
>>My experience is that CPU (and compilers / compiler flags) matter a lot
>>and the rest does not matter much.  Memory performance helps as well
>>and having a lot of RAM is a good idea, too (so that the OS can cache
>>format files, macro packages, fonts etc.).
> 
> 
> Thanks for replying.
> 
> 
>>For a benchmark, you can try
>>  time tex texbook >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> Well, I think texbook.tex is not the best file for benchmarking. It
> must be one with more complicated (output) routine(s), IMHO. Not to
> mention the permission to complie this file.
> 
> 
> All my teTeX sites were compiled with gcc, and -O3 -march options. Here
> are the results from my "garbage collection":
> 
> DEC Alphastation 233 MHz 128 MB SCSI 2
> --------------------------------------
> 
> Linux alpha 2.4.27 #5 Sun Sep 26 11:50:12 CEST 2004 alpha EV45  GNU/Linux
> TeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.14159
> kpathsea version 3.5.2
> 
> pgt@alpha pgt $ time tex texbook > /dev/null
> 
> real    0m27.523s
> user    0m26.665s
> sys     0m0.491s
> 
> Siemens Primergy Dual PentiumPro 200MHz 256MB SCSI 2
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Linux primergy 2.6.8.1 #9 SMP Sat Oct 2 00:03:44 CEST 2004
> i686 Pentium Pro GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> TeX (Web2C 7.5.3) 3.141592
> kpathsea version 3.5.3
> 
> pgt@primergy pgt $ time tex texbook > /dev/null
> 
> real    0m9.997s
> user    0m9.798s
> sys     0m0.191s
> 
> 
> AMD K62/333MHz 384MB udma2
> --------------------------
> 
> Linux linxi 2.4.27 #12 Fri Sep 17 22:49:07 CEST 2004 i586 unknown
> TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159
> kpathsea version 3.4.5
> 
> pgt@linxi~ $ time tex texbook > /dev/null
> 
> real    0m12.922s
> user    0m11.750s
> sys     0m0.180s
> 
> 
> So, the dual CPU machine seems to be the fastest, even with less
> MHz. The Alpha is pretty slow, I will try next week to compile teTeX
> with the Compaq compiler.
> 
> At work:
> 
> AMD Athlon 1200MHz 512MB udma5
> ------------------------------
> 
> Linux pc6 2.6.5-7.108-default #1 Wed Aug 25 13:34:40 UTC 2004 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> TeX (Web2C 7.5.3) 3.141592
> kpathsea version 3.5.3
> 
> plamen@pc6:~> time tex texbook > /dev/null
> 
> real    0m1.561s
> user    0m1.487s
> sys     0m0.070s
> 

Athlon64 3400 takes to me 0.60seconds
(0.57user 0.02system 0:00.60elapsed 99%CPU)
to do the same test. Architecture was
was Athlon64 3400, socket 754, with OS
MandrakeLinux 10.1-X86_64 (64bit edition).

Bye.
Giuseppe.