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Benchmarking the system/CPU performance

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:56:44 +0000

Have you ever wanted to have a quick check on your CPU performance. I know that lot of people will say that this is not the right way to do this, but here is something that you can use to check the CPU speed.

#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  benchmark.sh
#
#         USAGE:  ./benchmark.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:  Benchmark the CPU
#
#       OPTIONS:  ---
#  REQUIREMENTS:  ---
#          BUGS:  ---
#         NOTES:  ---
#        AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
#       COMPANY: Roamware India Pvt Ltd
#       CREATED: 09/21/2011 11:46:03 AM IST
# Last modified: Wed Sep 21, 2011  12:22PM
#      REVISION:  ---
#===============================================================================

add ()
{
    COUNTER=0
    exec 2>&1
    time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[  $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
        ; done))
    echo "Time for 100000 additions is "$time
}	# ----------  end of function add  ----------
mul ()
{
    COUNTER=0
    test=2
    exec 2>&1
    time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[  $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
        ; ((test=test*2));done))
    echo "Time for 100000 mul is "$time
}	# ----------  end of function add  ----------
div ()
{
    COUNTER=0
    test=1000000000000
    exec 2>&1
    time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[  $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
        ; (( test=test/2)); done)|tr -d '\n')
    echo "Time for 100000 divisions is "${time}
}	# ----------  end of function add  ----------

time add
time mul
time div

And here is the output :

autoten- install nvidia, gnome color chooser and many others in one click on Fedora.

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:38:53 +0000

There is a application/GUI called autoten from Dangermouse, find <a href="http://dnmouse.org/autoten-2-12.fc10.noarch.rpm ">here, which will help you install these.

designed to help get basics up and running fast
dvdplayback plus other codecs needed
parental controls
flash plugin
video card drivers
wireless drivers
set up sudo
java 6u7
realplayer
googleearth
frostwire
Limewire
lightscribe
compiz-fusion
skype
parental controls
plus many others

I tried it to install couple of things and it was a breeze. Here is a screenshot of the application.

Fixing the Xorg X server after removing nouveau and nvidia and installing a nVidia graphics card.

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:37:45 +0000

I updated my destop configuration recently, well thats not the news. But I was a idiot doing certain things at that time might be something interesting to my readers. I got a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/nvidia" title="Nvidia" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3707277778,-121.963738889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3707277778,-121.963738889%20%28Nvidia%29&t=h">nVidia <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/video_card" title="Video card" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card">graphics card, that was not the issue but I uninstalled the drivers for it after putting it in was the issue.

So, here is the story and the fix.

Configuration of my home desktop - updated

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:52:00 +0000

Here is the list of components of my Desktop :

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/nvidia" title="Nvidia" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3707277778,-121.963738889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3707277778,-121.963738889%20%28Nvidia%29&t=h">nVidia Corporation G96 [<a class="zem_slink" title="GeForce" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html">GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) with 1GB

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/intel_corporation" title="Intel Corporation" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3879277778,-121.963538889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3879277778,-121.963538889%20%28Intel%20Corporation%29&t=h">Intel(R) <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/intel_core_microarchitecture" title="Intel Core (microarchitecture)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_%28microarchitecture%29">Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz with 6 core

Transcend JM1333KLU-2G @ 1333MHz – totalling 4 GB of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ddr3_sdram" title="DDR3 SDRAM" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM">DDR3 RAM

22 inch BENQ <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/liquid_crystal_display" title="LCD" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/LCD">LCD monitor