From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965103AbWFIB3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:29:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965102AbWFIB3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:29:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.10.81]:61085 "EHLO smtp.andrew.cmu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965082AbWFIB3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:29:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4488CEDA.9060104@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:28:58 -0400 From: George Nychis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060529) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Barry K. Nathan" CC: lkml Subject: Re: what processor family does intel core duo L2400 belong to? References: <4488B159.2070806@cmu.edu> <986ed62e0606081650k227c948dy2c675bedd7a254fa@mail.gmail.com> <4488C098.90802@cmu.edu> <986ed62e0606081750w1be36f9fn35d69bffbc27f294@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <986ed62e0606081750w1be36f9fn35d69bffbc27f294@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Barry K. Nathan wrote: > 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. Both booted... I was hoping this would be a lot more straight forward :P I am getting the feeling that pentium-m might outperform... my true P4 computer is in family 15, whereas my PIII is in family 6, just like the Core Duo L2400