ThinkPad X220: Benchmarking

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For basic testing I installed the following packages.

# yaourt -S mesa-demos hdparm

dd (cpu)

Using dd in conjunction with any steam-processing CPU-intensive program to provide a simple CPU benchmark. It may not be very accurate though.

# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | md5sum

10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 20.3283 s, 528 MB/s 2dd26c4d4799ebd29fa31e48d49e8e53 -

CPU Temperature peaked around 64C during the test.

I then performed a rough 5 minute test.

# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=160 | md5sum

160+0 records in 160+0 records out 171798691840 bytes (172 GB, 160 GiB) copied, 324.407 s, 530 MB/s 8f75e24931ccd52edfc887601023073b -

CPU Temperature was a constant ~70C with peaks of 71-72C hitting as high as 74C near the end.

dd (ssd write)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/tempfile bs=1M count=1024 conv=fdatasync,notrunc status=progress

1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 9.93576 s, 108 MB/s

glxgears (vsync)

# glxgears

Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.715 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.048 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.048 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.050 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.048 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.045 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.055 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.049 FPS

hdparm (ssd read)

# sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 12822 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6414.67 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 790 MB in 3.00 seconds = 263.13 MB/sec

systemd-analyze (boot speed)

This plot is a detailed graphic of the boot sequence.

# systemd-analyze plot ~/boot.svg

memtest86

Memtest86 was installed into the rEFInd boot loader by installing the memtest86-efi package.

# yaourt -S memtest86-efi

PassMark MemTest86 V7.3 Free Intel Core i7-2640M @ 2.80GHz clk/Temp : 2791 MHz / 85C L1 Cache : 64K 20.76 GB/s L2 Cache : 256K 16.76 GB/s L3 Cache : 4096K 13.49 GB/s Memory  : 8085M 10.74 GB/s RAM Info : PC3-10600 DDR3 1332MHz / 9-9-9-24 / Samsung M471B5273CH0-CH9 AddrMode: 64-bit Pass: 4 / 4 Errors: 0 # Tests Passed: 17/17 (100%) Lowest Error Address: N/A Highest Error Address: N/A Bits in Error Mask: 0000000000000000 Bits in Error - Total: 0, Min: 0, Max: 0, Avg: 0 Max Contiguous Errors: 0

unixbench

BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench

System:	noc: GNU/Linux
OS:	GNU/Linux -- 4.11.9-1-ARCH -- #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 5 18:23:08 CEST 2017
Machine:	x86_64: unknown
Language:	en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPUs:	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz (5584.6/5586.7/5585.0/5585.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel Virtualization
Uptime:	11:07:16 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.08, 0.02; runlevel unknown

Benchmark Run: 4 CPUs; 1 parallel process Time: 12:19:15 - 12:47:30; 28m 15s Test Score Unit Time Iters. Baseline Index Dhrystone 2 using register variables 39166936.3 lps 10.0s 7 116700.0 3356.2 Double-Precision Whetstone 4415.1 MWIPS 10.9s 7 55.0 802.8 Execl Throughput 6603.8 lps 30.0s 2 43.0 1535.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1225791.3 KBps 30.0s 2 3960.0 3095.4 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 371498.6 KBps 30.0s 2 1655.0 2244.7 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2553151.3 KBps 30.0s 2 5800.0 4402.0 Pipe Throughput 2627484.7 lps 10.0s 7 12440.0 2112.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 232807.3 lps 10.0s 7 4000.0 582.0 Process Creation 9582.9 lps 30.0s 2 126.0 760.5 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2591.2 lpm 60.0s 2 42.4 611.1 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1428.7 lpm 60.0s 2 6.0 2381.2 System Call Overhead 3723276.5 lps 10.0s 7 15000.0 2482.2 System Benchmarks Index Score: 1656.7

Benchmark Run: 4 CPUs; 4 parallel processes Time: 12:47:30 - 13:15:39; 28m 09s Test Score Unit Time Iters. Baseline Index Dhrystone 2 using register variables 81918648.5 lps 10.0s 7 116700.0 7019.6 Double-Precision Whetstone 15164.7 MWIPS 10.0s 7 55.0 2757.2 Execl Throughput 13423.8 lps 29.9s 2 43.0 3121.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1089129.6 KBps 30.0s 2 3960.0 2750.3 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 295566.4 KBps 30.0s 2 1655.0 1785.9 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2874461.6 KBps 30.0s 2 5800.0 4956.0 Pipe Throughput 5356864.3 lps 10.0s 7 12440.0 4306.2 Pipe-based Context Switching 911864.7 lps 10.0s 7 4000.0 2279.7 Process Creation 31946.9 lps 30.0s 2 126.0 2535.5 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 10425.9 lpm 60.0s 2 42.4 2458.9 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1510.2 lpm 60.1s 2 6.0 2517.0 System Call Overhead 8464354.2 lps 10.0s 7 15000.0 5642.9 System Benchmarks Index Score: 3227.7