How Fast to Start Classic on X?

[maclamb]

One way to test/compare speed of your machine might be to see how long classic takes to start from OSX .
I assume there is a good mix of Harddrive as well as CPU, no?

Mine:

Ti667, 1 G RAM, 30G HD
102.42 seconds (started from system prefs)...

and yours?

 

[eyelikeart]

not sure if that's accurate...

I don't think that can be an accurate measurement...

depending on what speed system u have....
which OS Classic is....
which extensions are loaded....

it can vary quite a bit I'd imagine?

 

[Beej]

Time: 38 secs
Started from: Sys prefs
Extensions: off
Processor: G4 400
RAM: 640 MB
HD: 7220 RPM
OS X: 10.1.2
OS 9: 9.2.1

It's not really a good benchmark at all. But that's what mine does.

 

[maclamb]

agreed - not my best idea...

What do you think of time to boot in OSX?
Time to first display of Desktop?

Just looking for something we all have that we could test and share - a "universal" benchmark?

 

[Catfish_Man]

A universal benchmark...

...is an excellent idea. Perhaps we should measure performance in several categories, then do a weighted average to get a "Total Performance Rating".

Some obvious benchmarks:

OpenGL performance: Quake III framerates (average of several resolutions)
Disk Performance: Copy times for several folder sizes
Application Start Times: Average of some standard bouncemarks
Operating System Start Times: Boot times for latest 9.x and 10.x systems
CD read speed: Copy times from CD Drive to RAM disk
CD write speed: Copy times from RAM disk to CD Drive
DVD read speed: same as CD
DVD write speed: same as CD
Altivec Performance: ratio of Altivec Fractal Carbon Demo (AFCD) scores with Altivec on and off.
Non-Altivec Math speed: AFCD w/out Altivec
Altivec Math speed: AFCD w/ Altivec
2D performance (Altivec): Photoshop filters
2D performance (non-Altivec): some non-Altivec accelerated graphics program (the GIMP maybe? It's Linux so it might not use Altivec)
etc...

If you wanted a benchmark that didn't include some (like cd-writing for example) you just leave that test out.

 

[moby1]

sub 30 sec.

I use Conflict Catcher (awesome app'!) to control my extensions and created a 'Classic' set.

I've had several sub. 30 sec. startups on my G4 500 Ti and present G4 550 Ti.

 

[Hemingray]

That's an excellent idea, having a Classic Set of extensions! Thank you for that! ::goes and sees how fast he can make classic boot::

 

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by Beej
Time: 38 secs
Started from: Sys prefs
Extensions: off
Processor: G4 400
RAM: 640 MB
HD: 7220 RPM
OS X: 10.1.2
OS 9: 9.2.1

It's not really a good benchmark at all. But that's what mine does.

Wow, really? Mine with extensions off took about 14 secs...

Processor: G4 400
RAM: 1024MB
OS 9: 9.2.2

Would be much more practical to have extensions on, tho. Unfortunately, this skyrockets the time up to 48 seconds!

 

[DakotaGuy]

G3 400 Mhz 128MB RAM 10GB HD 120 seconds (extensions on)
49 seconds (restarting w/extensions off)


G3 600 Mhz 256MB RAM 20GB HD 62 seconds (extensions on)
12 seconds (restarting w/ extensions off)

started from the control panel

They are both configured the exact same way...but I would have to agree that it is not a good test otherwise why is my iBook kicking your TiBook out of here...

 

[maclamb]

Wow - great replies....

I've been reading that the concensus seems to be that games (quake, etc) are not good measures of mchine speed - too much video chip and that 3D rendering is better.

Perhaps we coulld down load a demo version of Electric Image for OSX and compare rendering times fo rthe same model?