benchmarking FC1

[Paolo]

Emiliano Brunetti said:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:03, Paolo wrote:
>> Emiliano Brunetti said:
>> [...]
>> > I googled a bit and didn't find much about benchmarking normal desktop
>> > usage. Maybe the case is that there isn't still anything.
>>
>> You don't find anything because you don't know what u want to benchmark
>> ;)
>
> Please read previous posts. I need to benchmark 'normal desktop usage',
> that in such case could be disk I/O, graphic adapter performance and cpu
> load, all in normal conditions - that is somehow simulating a normal
> desktop usage (spreadsheet, writing, surfing, emailing, doing a little
> of graphic stuff).

It was not my intention to be rude, sorry about that.

May be I just don't understand what you need,
if you want to measure the usage of the machine _while_ you use a few
application then vmstat and top will be your best friends.
If you want to simulate the desktop usage then I'm totaly lost.

My suggestion is to manually use the 'common' application
and monitor the system usage.

I really don't know of any benchmark that can be used to measure
the "speedines" of a graphical enviroment.

I recall it was evend discussed on lkml but I don't think anybody
had a solution to this problem.

Ciao,
                          Paolo