It would be great if some of you volunteered to setup the following:
- a set of benchmarks that matter in real life, examples are booting into kdm prompt, booting into GNOME session, firefox start, OOo start, shutdown, .... - run these tests with different distributions on the same hardware (virtualized machines are interesting but show very often different results than real hardware that caches differently) - keep an eye on Factory and its status compared to these benchmarks.
I'm still in progress of setting up a kvm setup that installs factory daily and runs some performance checks, but I want to do this automatically and this has quite some limits. So it would be very good to have volunteers.
I compared sled gnome menu and control center start up time. On my old HP NX 6110, (1,4 CPU Celeron, 768MB RAM, VGA Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900), the difference is significant. gnome menu Ubuntu - starts up immediately openSUSE - lasts about 1 sec. control center Ubuntu - takes cca. 1 sec. openSUSE - takes cca. 3 seconds Booting into Gnome session and shutdown i didn´t want to compare, because it wouldn´t be a fair. The newest Ubuntu 9.04 has much, much faster boot time than older openSUSE 11.1 and an older Ubuntu 8.10 i didn´t install. We should wait on 11.2 and Karmic Koala - 9.10, if we would like to compare boot time. -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org