Originally Posted by
jerrylamos
On topic, maybe Unity seems faster than it was to some people - I don't have any benchmarks to show that. Earlier Unity I resorted to 2D or Lxde I am able to use Unity O.K. lately.
Just tried Linux Mint amd64 14 for what I do noticeably faster and less keystrokes than Unity.
Anyone have any desktop benchmark methods?
I am beta testing Ubuntu Unity 3D desktop amd64bit kernels on the previously mentioned machines. Not beta testing Linux Mint. As previously mentioned, gtkperf (sudo apt-get install gtkperf) and run that from terminal. Switch through GRUB with different kernels and notice the difference in time (with the different conditions) it takes to complete that test, then you will notice performance increase across different kernels. This thread does not mention tests for Lubuntu. Xubuntu or Kubuntu.
Here's how:
Code:
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Nov 29 08:40:03 2012
GtkEntry - time: 0.10
GtkComboBox - time: 7.28
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 2.34
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.48
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.94
GtkToggleButton - time: 4.35
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.43
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.67
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 2.10
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.40
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 5.13
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 5.51
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 3.99
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.29
---
Total time: 35.02
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$ uname -a
Linux ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N 3.7.0-030700rc2-generic #201210220428 SMP Mon Oct 22 08:37:05 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$
Code:
Old Quantal Questzal Kernel, 32bit
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Nov 29 08:55:16 2012
GtkEntry - time: 0.10
GtkComboBox - time: 8.85
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 3.41
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.64
GtkProgressBar - time: 2.09
GtkToggleButton - time: 4.75
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.75
GtkRadioButton - time: 1.35
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 2.35
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.43
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 4.11
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 5.52
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 3.88
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.11
---
Total time: 39.34
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$ uname -a
Linux ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:32:08 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$
Code:
with ccsm on:
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$ uname -a
Linux ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N 3.7.0-3-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 20 22:38:45 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Nov 29 09:13:32 2012
GtkEntry - time: 0.10
GtkComboBox - time: 7.75
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 3.47
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.97
GtkProgressBar - time: 1.55
GtkToggleButton - time: 4.59
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.37
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.59
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.82
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.36
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 4.71
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 4.50
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 3.56
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.18
---
Total time: 35.55
Code:
with ccsm off:
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$ uname -a
Linux ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N 3.7.0-3-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 20 22:38:45 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Nov 29 09:19:10 2012
GtkEntry - time: 0.10
GtkComboBox - time: 2.65
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1.09
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.26
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.44
GtkToggleButton - time: 1.03
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.24
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.37
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.23
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.28
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 2.17
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 3.66
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 2.49
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.41
---
Total time: 16.44
Code:
without ccsm:
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$ uname -a
Linux ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N 3.7.0-030700rc7-generic #201211252135 SMP Mon Nov 26 02:35:53 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ventrical@ventrical-PY028AA-ABA-A1106N:~$
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Nov 29 09:28:53 2012
GtkEntry - time: 0.09
GtkComboBox - time: 2.58
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1.13
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.25
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.43
GtkToggleButton - time: 1.01
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.24
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.37
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.23
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.27
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 2.11
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 3.54
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 2.42
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.39
---
Total time: 16.07
So, as you can see , there is a gradual increase in performance, although this thread did not originally address the newer kernels installed on hardware, but, rather a responsive like activity coming from the Daliy Live Build of Friday, Nov.23/2012.
I am just trying to report beta testing of Unity 3D Raring Ringtail as best as possibly with the tools at hand.
regards..