Re: Crusoe's performance on linux?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <bddptk$gqc$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
By author:    "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I have written a script to try to give a consistent compile benchmark;
> however, one still needs to make sure that DMA is turned on (hdparm -d
> /dev/hda); obviously, the compiler etc should not be on NFS.
> 

Leave it to me to actually forget the script...

#!/bin/bash -x

KERNEL=/home/mirror/kernel.org/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.21.tar.gz

if [ -d /tmp/build ]; then
  umount /tmp/build > /dev/null 2>&1
  rmdir /tmp/build
fi

mkdir -p /tmp/build
mount -t tmpfs none /tmp/build
cd /tmp/build
tar xfz $KERNEL
cd linux*
cp -f arch/i386/defconfig .config
yes "" | make oldconfig
make dep
start=`date`
time bash -c 'make -j3 bzImage > build.log 2>&1'
end=`date`
echo "Started: $start  Ended: $end"


	-hpa
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