Benchmark

Posts with tag: benchmark

• Running a CPU benchmark on Apple Silicon M1 (bash) • 13 Jan 2021
  When I started working with my Mac Mini M1, I felt it was faster, but I couldn’t really compare with a proper benchmark. I work a lot with video so I created an Apple (M1 and older) benchmark that is...
• Probe disk performance (MRTG) • 03 Nov 2004
  The hdparam can be used to monitor the throughput speed of a hard disk: # <strong>hdparm -tT /dev/hda</strong> /dev/hda:<br /> Timing buffer-cache reads: 888 MB in 2.00 seconds = 444.00 MB/sec<br /> Timing buffered disk reads: 20 MB in 3.30...
• Calculate hit rate from a log file • 21 Oct 2004
  You have a huge file that contains one line per request/transaction. Some of the lines are of one type (e.g. ‘HIT’), some of another (e.g. MISS). Let’s say you want to calculate the hitrate, but as fast as possible. We...