![]() ![]() In all honesty I can't say that in daily work (mostly heavy lifting with Photoshop) that I have noticed any slow down, so I am not overly concerned about Xbench. What I was hoping I might hear in some replies was that others had noticed dropping scores with 10.4.6, indicating that maybe XBench has some issues with 10.4.6, or that 10.4.6 has genuinely slowed down the things that Xbench measures. I realise that Cache cleaning can temporarily slow things while caches are rebuilt, but I don't believe that is an issue here because I don't use it very often or run Xbench just after. I keep a close watch on what startup items are being added by new software and remove unnecessary ones. Defragging has not been part of the maintenance. Macaroni was also in use for the fast 10.4.3 result as well. I use Macaroni to run the log cleans and repair permissions. It was slow before the defrag.īy "well maintained" I mean I keep the software up to date, use Diskwarrior and Tiger Cache Cleaner occasionally at any sign of trouble. I only did it this time (using iDefrag)as an opportunity to see whether it made a difference.which it didn't. I am aware that defragging is unneccessary and I have never done it before. Spinning Squares 100.05 126.92 frames/sec Lock Contention 92.70 3.99 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Uncached Read 99.52 18.47 MB/sec įloating Point Basic 98.02 2.33 Gflop/secįloating Point Library 90.63 15.78 Mops/secĬomputation 99.75 2.02 Mops/sec, 4 threads Spinning Squares 109.51 138.92 frames/sec Lock Contention 99.03 4.26 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads My G5 is fully maintained, and I even just did a defrag, which made no difference at all.įor anyone interested I have pasted the results below.įloating Point Basic 98.13 2.33 Gflop/secįloating Point Library 95.85 16.69 Mops/secĬomputation 99.41 2.01 Mops/sec, 4 threads The 10.4.6 result is slower in all sections of the testing, but particularly the memory test, Quartz and Open loop graphics tests, User Interface test and the disk test. ![]() I always have processor performance set to "highest" in the energy pref pane. These two are each typical of a few runs with each OS as I know there is some scatter between tests. The X bench score for 10.4.6 is 93.24 with all the same hardware. I have an ambivalent attitude to benchmarking, but can't resist running X bench (v1.2) from time to time. ![]()
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