Where can i find a guide for making a benching OS?

[ProphetX]

Im trying to put together a good Os just for benchmarking and nothing else. Also does anyone know if using a raptor for benching makes any difference?

[Serra]

Generally people just take a stripped down version of 2000 for serious benching. I don't have a link, but I guarantee you can find one with a bit of searching.

And yes, raptor(s) can make a benching difference... depending on the bench, of course. If you want to spend some money, get an I-RAM. Basically a PCI board that you can populate with up to 4 gigs of ram and plus into a hard drive slot. Downsides include the fact that it only has a 10 hour battery life and it's expensive. Suppisidly an I-RAM 2 is coming along soon which will have a PCI-X connector and use SATA2.

Or, if you REALLY want to get into it, you can always use a black-box Knoppix distro and then you don't even have to worry about a hard drive. It can use your on-board RAM as it's HDD. Blazing fast speeds and very low cost... but you limit your available RAM, can hit compatability issues (both hardware and software), and obviously doesn't store information past shutdown.

Serra

[ProphetX]

Generally people just take a stripped down version of 2000 for serious benching. I don't have a link, but I guarantee you can find one with a bit of searching.

And yes, raptor(s) can make a benching difference... depending on the bench, of course. If you want to spend some money, get an I-RAM. Basically a PCI board that you can populate with up to 4 gigs of ram and plus into a hard drive slot. Downsides include the fact that it only has a 10 hour battery life and it's expensive. Suppisidly an I-RAM 2 is coming along soon which will have a PCI-X connector and use SATA2.

Or, if you REALLY want to get into it, you can always use a black-box Knoppix distro and then you don't even have to worry about a hard drive. It can use your on-board RAM as it's HDD. Blazing fast speeds and very low cost... but you limit your available RAM, can hit compatability issues (both hardware and software), and obviously doesn't store information past shutdown.

Serra




Thanks for the info. Im curious to see about this new iram when it comes out. Do you have any est release dates? Also which operating system will work best, i've hears some work better than others.

[ProphetX]

anyone?

[[XC] moddolicous]

Check this thread (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=90440). Theres some good info in there.

[ProphetX]

Check this thread (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=90440). Theres some good info in there.


Thanks for the link. Looks like ill get started on this tomorrow.:toast: