Compiling the linux kernel is a fairly good benchmark. Especially since a
lot of my day is spent compiling

code and programming. So I decided to compile a stock PaysonLinux kernel
(2.6.32.9) in various

systems and compare compiling time. Here are the results in each of my
systems:



Machine Number One:

HP Pavilion dv6000 (laptop)

Windows XP SP3

3 GB DDR2 800 MHz Ram

2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo

PaysonLinux installed in VirtualBox with a 20 GB hard drive image (not
dynamic)


Real 76m56.418s

User 40m6.351s

Sys 43m53.418s



Machine Number Two:

Dell Optiplex (server)

PaysonLinux 1.5

512 MB DDR2 533 Ram

2.8 GHz Pentium 4 HT


Real 72m27.601s

User 62m31.176s

Sys 7m55.526s



Machine Number Three:

Dell Latitude D620 (laptop)

PaysonLinux 1.8

2.5 GB DDR2 800 MHz Ram

2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo


Real 60m58.084s

User 53m14.081s

Sys 7m15.363s



Machine Number Four:

Lenovo Thinkpad T500 (laptop) ** new system **

PaysonLinux 2.0.1

4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz Ram

2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo


Real 21m19.746s

User 37m14.059s

Sys 4m33.276s



As you could imagine, I'm quite happy with my new Thinkpad!