FC5, progression or regression?

[David Timms]

Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 2/28/06, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> Dave Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:59:54PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>  > Mike A. Harris (mharris at mharris.ca) said:
>>>  > > >a 3 GHz P4 processor for heaven's sake. It should run FC5 like the wind.
>>>  > >
>>>  > > That's why it is a test release, to find bugs.  Don't use test releases
>>>  > > if you expect flawless OS operation and perfect performance.
>>>  >
>>>  > However, if it's *significantly* less performance, it could certainly
>>>  > signify something that's wrong.
>>>
>>> Current kernels still have slab debugging on (Because we still have
>>> bugs that this is tripping up that need whacking).  The increased
>>> overhead of this sucks up memory bandwidth, and I wouldn't be
>>> surprised if shared-memory video chipsets feel some pain.
>> With glxgears, I see the gears update about 15 times in 10 seconds, and
>> the results are (AMD athlon 2600+, 512ram, nvidia fx5600)# glxgears
>> 888 frames in 5.4 seconds = 165.811 FPS
>> 798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 158.416 FPS
>> 912 frames in 5.7 seconds = 161.284 FPS
>> 798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 158.274 FPS
>> 798 frames in 5.1 seconds = 155.004 FPS
>> It's hard to tell if this is just a stobing effect ;-)
>>
>> I think it was at least an order of magnitude higher in FC4 - from
>> memory approximately 5000 f/s (but perhaps only with the nvidia
>> (non-open) driver).
> 
> Are you able to run glxgears with the nv (open-source) driver?  It
> does not work for me (x86_64 PCI-e 6600 GT):
Yes, the above slow results are with nv (ie default installer chosen 
driver / config) - there is no error, however it appears that the gears 
are not being clearly updated on the screen; CPU use goes to 100% but I 
think that would be normal :)
from /var/log/X log:
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.1
         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
...
(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
...
(--) Chipset GeForce FX 5600 found
...
(II) NV(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
         Screen to screen bit blits

DaveT