From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965058AbWFIAud (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:50:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965068AbWFIAud (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:50:33 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.205]:43402 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965058AbWFIAuc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:50:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=fdEVVc2cVM8R7lZIwJC2pF98UgR2iEDVrKymtJL8NR5ucU/x8V9QsIhqtg6Bde8llCeY4UJVxATFEwyfA/dDEfgT/uK8av5I0hH627mKkqgC6YWqYplCE8gVpwkLDGhEd5Gje3uHjGuCdYzJu/oOhopdooi9gBom3WvX+xEDnrw= Message-ID: <986ed62e0606081750w1be36f9fn35d69bffbc27f294@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:50:31 -0700 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: "George Nychis" Subject: Re: what processor family does intel core duo L2400 belong to? Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <4488C098.90802@cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4488B159.2070806@cmu.edu> <986ed62e0606081650k227c948dy2c675bedd7a254fa@mail.gmail.com> <4488C098.90802@cmu.edu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8a692310f20810a0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/8/06, George Nychis wrote: > Put me in your shoes, what would you test to see which one is the true > choice? I'd start by seeing which one (if either) will boot the system (with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC disabled). In the past, when I've had trouble deciding, this has actually eliminated more possibilities than you might expect. Beyond that, I don't know for certain what I would test with. Perhaps I'd start with lmbench, or if I was using the system for 3D stuff, perhaps framerates from glxgears or a 3D game. If I was using the system for network stuff, I'd run network benchmarks. (Perhaps disk benchmarks would be good too, but my experience is that network performance tends to suffer first and/or more severely, especially if Gigabit Ethernet or slow CPU's are involved.) If both choices boot, the performance difference may be quite small. -- -Barry K. Nathan