Okay I ran it and discovered a number of things:
- The numbers can vary significantly from run to run (surprising).
- Shutting down processes can speed things up. (no surprise)
Thing is, with everything shut down i got some abysmal numbers for a couple of the benchmarks. The outliers seem easy to spot, but it's kinda odd... Anyway here ya go.
Run 1 (all my normal daemons, monitors, etc. running)
Results 66.89
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.2 (7D24)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model PowerBook5,2
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.25 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.25 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV350M10
Drive Type Hitachi IC25N060ATMR04-0
Disk Test 66.89
Sequential 78.29
Uncached Write 92.91 38.73 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 62.82 25.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 117.29 18.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.95 25.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 58.39
Uncached Write 52.93 0.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 56.76 12.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.91 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.56 13.70 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Run 2 - shut down MenuMeters
Disk Test 67.85
Sequential 78.24
Uncached Write 84.17 35.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.37 27.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.83 18.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.28 25.16 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 59.90
Uncached Write 53.66 0.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 63.01 14.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.68 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.67 13.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Run 3 - shut everything down I could find
Disk Test 61.59
Sequential 63.76
Uncached Write 37.62 15.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 74.73 30.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 129.97 20.58 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.34 26.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 59.56
Uncached Write 56.50 0.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 58.30 13.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.64 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.54 13.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Run 4 - all sorts of things running including Mozilla
Disk Test 67.13
Sequential 75.96
Uncached Write 75.99 31.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.87 27.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.54 18.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 61.81 24.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 60.14
Uncached Write 58.12 0.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 58.09 13.10 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.77 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.32 13.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]