Benchmarking

This article Article description::describes various methods of system benchmarking on Linux. It covers CPUs, power usage, RAM, and graphics.

Power usage
can guess the computer's current power usage in watts.

ramspeed
can measure the computer's ram speed.

I/O and Hard drive
Some of the available packages to measure input-output-performance in general:



time
Using  to examine time spent in user- and system space:

Reset default options
If you have played nexuiz you should reset to default options for canonical benchmark results.

Reset
If you have played Xonotic you should reset to default options for canonical benchmark results.

glxgears
Obtain by emerging.

External resources

 * http://lbs.sourceforge.net/ - A SourceForge site dedicated to listing benchmark utilities for Linux.