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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Simple X windows benchmark
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.014025.17578@pegasus.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 01:40:25 GMT
Reply-To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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X-Local-Date: 27 Jul 90 18:40:25 PDT

I'm trying to assess the performance of the various video boards and X
servers.  Here's a very simple benchmark that zeros in on one very important
aspect -- scrolling.  I'd appreciate it if those running X could try this
out and report their results.

To run the benchmark start up an xterm like this:

	xterm -geometry 80x24 -fn 8x13 +j &

then put the following awk script in a file called x-test:
-----------------------------cut here----------------------------
BEGIN {
	for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
		printf("xxxxxxxxxxxxx %d\n", i);
	}
	exit;
}
-----------------------------cut here----------------------------
Run it, from the above mentioned xterm, like this:

	time awk -f x-test

and report the real time results.

One data point:

	Unix:		ISC 2.0.2 Unix
	X server:	ISC X11R3 1.0.0, Xhrc
	Resolution:	720x348x2
	Video card:	Hercules monochrome graphics clone
	Cpu:		33MHz 386 (Mylex), 128k cache, 8megs RAM
	80387:		no

	Time:		1:43


If you're running X on a 386 or 486 box please try this and post your results.

Thanks.


-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com