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MB Pro - Poor Performance

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jturbo68

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May 15, 2009
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I have owned a MB pro 2.33G for the past few years. It has never seemed like a particularly speedy machine to me. Particularly when using VM Fusion.

Sometomes the Mouse will disappear, Spinning wheel when switching between windws or users.

Anyway, I received a new MB Pro for work ... it has none of those issues.

Based on the xbench test I have run, I think the HD is not working well.

Can someone take a look at these results and provide some guidance on what the issue may be?

Thx
John


Results 82.99
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM 3072 MB
Model MacBookPro2,2
Drive Type TOSHIBA MK2035GSS
CPU Test 140.56
GCD Loop 272.33 14.36 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 130.05 3.09 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 105.18 3.47 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 131.78 22.95 Mops/sec
Thread Test 203.56
Computation 190.90 3.87 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 218.01 9.38 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 123.39
System 144.84
Allocate 251.11 922.14 Kalloc/sec
Fill 122.59 5960.68 MB/sec
Copy 116.64 2409.20 MB/sec
Stream 107.47
Copy 93.12 1923.41 MB/sec
Scale 106.88 2208.11 MB/sec
Add 130.13 2771.99 MB/sec
Triad 105.93 2266.17 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 158.56
Line 136.40 9.08 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 202.18 60.36 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 166.47 13.57 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 159.60 4.03 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 143.20 8.96 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 163.67
Spinning Squares 163.67 207.62 frames/sec
User Interface Test 154.21
Elements 154.21 707.76 refresh/sec
Disk Test 22.07
Sequential 37.62
Uncached Write 36.91 22.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 37.08 20.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 30.80 9.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 50.50 25.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 15.62
Uncached Write 5.22 0.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 35.64 11.41 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 45.88 0.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.26 12.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
If you enclose the xbench scores in code tags, they'll be easier for us to read.

Anyway, you say you're not having any of the issues you get with your older machine (did you try taking it to an Apple store? I've never got "...Mouse will disappear, Spinning wheel when switching between windws or users. " with any of the Macs I've used)

Anyway, if you're not getting any issues, is there anything that you notice being off? If not, just forget about the benchmarks.

By the way, to get a view of how your disk is running, open Activity Monitor and view Disk Activity, then open Terminal and copy a large file to another location (not move, since moving just changes the directory pointer). See the peak transfer rate and double it (since you're reading and writing simultaneously).

I get sustained speeds of 25MB/s (ie 50MB/s) with my MBP, which has a 7200rpm, 250GB drive.
 
MY Xbench score is horrible (MBP in sig):

Results 62.87
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.7 (9J61)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro2,2
Drive Type FUJITSU MHW2120BH
CPU Test 61.29
GCD Loop 115.72 6.10 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 55.95 1.33 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 44.51 1.47 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 61.41 10.69 Mops/sec
Thread Test 88.96
Computation 81.14 1.64 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 98.45 4.24 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 95.37
System 86.90
Allocate 86.75 318.57 Kalloc/sec
Fill 79.47 3864.01 MB/sec
Copy 96.03 1983.50 MB/sec
Stream 105.69
Copy 97.23 2008.29 MB/sec
Scale 101.33 2093.42 MB/sec
Add 113.73 2422.79 MB/sec
Triad 112.33 2403.01 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 75.65
Line 69.45 4.62 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 86.51 25.83 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 73.92 6.03 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 75.92 1.91 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 74.44 4.66 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 99.81
Spinning Squares 99.81 126.62 frames/sec
User Interface Test 87.15
Elements 87.15 399.97 refresh/sec
Disk Test 25.91
Sequential 37.85
Uncached Write 33.75 20.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 34.09 19.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 48.36 14.15 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 38.39 19.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 19.70
Uncached Write 6.89 0.73 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 43.34 13.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 54.33 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.84 11.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Why?


EDIT: nvm, I had my battery out. So I put the battery in and:


Results 110.48
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.7 (9J61)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro2,2
Drive Type FUJITSU MHW2120BH
CPU Test 145.95
GCD Loop 274.15 14.45 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 132.66 3.15 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 107.34 3.54 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 144.86 25.22 Mops/sec
Thread Test 207.70
Computation 204.65 4.15 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 210.85 9.07 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 132.70
System 146.79
Allocate 171.18 628.64 Kalloc/sec
Fill 133.59 6495.43 MB/sec
Copy 140.65 2904.99 MB/sec
Stream 121.07
Copy 114.02 2355.03 MB/sec
Scale 115.27 2381.52 MB/sec
Add 128.72 2742.05 MB/sec
Triad 127.82 2734.41 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 181.23
Line 159.99 10.65 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 213.80 63.83 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 175.57 14.31 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 170.42 4.30 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 196.15 12.27 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 237.80
Spinning Squares 237.80 301.67 frames/sec
User Interface Test 296.21
Elements 296.21 1.36 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 32.20
Sequential 49.11
Uncached Write 43.47 26.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 47.12 26.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 51.67 15.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.94 28.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 23.95
Uncached Write 8.59 0.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 52.56 16.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.60 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 73.57 13.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
TOSHIBA MK2035GSS <--- 4200rpm

Although Toshiba came up with some tricks to make it has writing and reading speed as fast as a 5400rpm one. But to me, 4200rpm is still 4200rpm.
 
ValkyrieLenneth said:
TOSHIBA MK2035GSS <--- 4200rpm

Although Toshiba came up with some tricks to make it has writing and reading speed as fast as a 5400rpm one. But to me, 4200rpm is still 4200rpm.
Click to expand...
That was the largest capacity drive option available at the time but you had to bump down to 4200 RPM right?
 
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