benchmarking FC1

[Emiliano Brunetti]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:51, George wrote:
> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Stringer <ben at burbong.com> writes:
> 
>     Ben> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:29, Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
>     >> I need to benchmark disk I/O, CPU performance, graphic adapter
>     >> performance an overall performance of both gnome and kde environments.
>     >> THe best thing would be some kind of tool with also a nice graphic
>     >> output.
> 
>     Ben> Checkout out bonnie++ for hard disk benchmarking.
> 
>     Ben> http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
> 
>     Ben> I could not suggest tools for any of the other categories without
>     Ben> knowing what the application set was likely to be.
> 
>     Ben> Cheers, Ben
> 
> Sounds to me like a search for certainty in an uncertain situation.
> Flip a coin, try one, see what happens.  Your chances of making a
> better choice after much study are rather small and you will have lost
> a lot of time in the process.  If you really need performance, apply
> the money you save to more RAM.

George,

i was 'asked' to do this job. I can agree with you on many points, yet i
have to do some kind of testing.

E.