(K)Ubuntu means having choices, but I admit got a little carried away with trying the different Feisty Beta kernels. Since I collected the test data on my system, I thought posting it might save someone from wasting a lot of time. I know 32-bit apps should not be expected to run faster on a 64-bit OS and hardware platform, but hardheads like me want to see it empirically. Having gone so far as trying the AMD64 kernel, I went the rest of the way and tried the server kernel too.
Here is my hardware:
Intel X6800 CPU @3300MHz
Intel D975XBX main board
Mushkin DDR2 RAM, 4GB
Hard Drives:
sda = Model=Maxtor 6L200P0
sdb = Model=WDC WD1500AHFD-00RAR1
sdc = Model=WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR1
I ran three quick tests, just to see what I could learn in a short time. On the server kernel, I could not manage to install the Nvidia driver (either there's a required package file missing or I'm a dunce), so there's no glxgears data for that kernel. The "TMG" test is a MS Visual FoxPro database program that is customized for genealogy. I have a 63,000 individual database, and I ran "File Verify Integrity" which is pretty much what it says, I run TMG under a Windows emulator called Win4LinPro, which is proprietary (Wine won't handle TMG). Here's the results of my little adventure.
GLXGGEARS HDPARM, Buffered Reads (MB/sec), Avg. 2 Cycles TMG/Win4Lin
VERSION (FPS, Avg. 8 cycles) sda sdb sdc avg VFI (Min:Sec)
2.6.20-14-generic 10927 61.25 84.25 82.2 75.9 03:14
2.6.20-14-AMD64 11009 60.85 84.1 82.1 75.7 03:25
2.6.20-14-server n/a 61 84.2 82.1 75.8 03:27
Here is my hardware:
Intel X6800 CPU @3300MHz
Intel D975XBX main board
Mushkin DDR2 RAM, 4GB
Hard Drives:
sda = Model=Maxtor 6L200P0
sdb = Model=WDC WD1500AHFD-00RAR1
sdc = Model=WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR1
I ran three quick tests, just to see what I could learn in a short time. On the server kernel, I could not manage to install the Nvidia driver (either there's a required package file missing or I'm a dunce), so there's no glxgears data for that kernel. The "TMG" test is a MS Visual FoxPro database program that is customized for genealogy. I have a 63,000 individual database, and I ran "File Verify Integrity" which is pretty much what it says, I run TMG under a Windows emulator called Win4LinPro, which is proprietary (Wine won't handle TMG). Here's the results of my little adventure.
GLXGGEARS HDPARM, Buffered Reads (MB/sec), Avg. 2 Cycles TMG/Win4Lin
VERSION (FPS, Avg. 8 cycles) sda sdb sdc avg VFI (Min:Sec)
2.6.20-14-generic 10927 61.25 84.25 82.2 75.9 03:14
2.6.20-14-AMD64 11009 60.85 84.1 82.1 75.7 03:25
2.6.20-14-server n/a 61 84.2 82.1 75.8 03:27