====== Benchmarks ======

A benchmark is test that measures the performance of a system or subsystem on a well-defined task or set of tasks. Benchmarks are often used to measure general things like graphics, I/O, computing (integer and floating point), etc., performance, but most measure more specific tasks like rendering polygons, reading and writing files, or performing operations on matrixes.

=====CPU Benchmarks=====

===nbench===

The following results were obtained using nbench 2.2.2.\\
All nbench results are in comparison to an AMD K6 233Mhz reference system. 


^	CPU^DSM-G600 revB1 (PPC)	^LS1 (PPC)	^LS2 (MIPSel)	^HG (PPC)	^LSPro (ARM9)		^DNS-323 (ARM9)		^AMD (K6)	^
^	Clock Speed^170MHz			^200MHz		^400MHz		^266MHz		^400MHz			^500MHz			^233Mhz		^
^	Firmware^Gentoo 2005.0		^FreeLink 1.1	^OpenLink 0.52b	^FreeLink 1.11	^FreeLink 0.1 dev ^D-Link firmware ^Linux		^
^	Numeric Sort| 0.70  | 0.75  | 0.79  | 1.01  | 0.84  | 1.07  | 1.00 |
^	String Sort| 0.40  | 0.56  | 0.53  | 0.75  | 0.48  | 0.65  | 1.00 |
^	Bitfield| 1.14  | 1.02  | 1.30  | 1.37  | 1.46  | 1.04  | 1.00 |
^	FP Emulation| 1.05  | 1.11  | 1.08  | 1.49  | 2.61  | 0.99  | 1.00 |
^	Fourier| 0.65  | 0.65  | 0.00  | 0.88  | 0.02  | 0.02  | 1.00 |
^	Assignment| 0.69  | 0.83  | 1.17  | 1.13  | 1.97  | 1.29  | 1.00 |
^	Idea| 1.12  | 1.34  | 2.50  | 1.80  | 1.10  | 1.66  | 1.00 |
^	Huffman| 1.40  | 1.21  | 0.18  | 1.63  | 0.62  | 0.68  | 1.00 |
^	Neural Net| 1.03  | 1.24  | 0.00  | 1.68  | 0.03  | 0.03  | 1.00 |
^	LU Decomposition| 0.99  | 1.27  | 0.01  | 1.86  | 0.05  | 0.05  | 1.00 |
^	Memory Index| 0.682 | 0.777 | 0.931 | 1.049 | 1.000 | 1.000  | 1.00 |
^	Integer Index| 1.036 | 1.077 | 0.792 | 1.451 | 1.000 | 1.000  | 1.00 |
^	Floating-Point Index| 0.869 | 1.009 | 0.004 | 1.400 | 0.031 | 0.031  | 1.00 |

===Bogo Mips===

^	Machine^CPU	^Clock	^BogoMIPS	^
^	DSM-G600 revB|PPC	|170MHz	|133.12		|
^	HD-HLAN (LS1)|PPC 	|200MHz	|130.66		|
^	HD-HGLAN (HG)|PPC	|266MHz	|173.26		|
^	LS-GL|ARM	| 400MHz	|266.24		|
^	DNS-323|ARM	| 500MHz	|331.77		|




=====Throughput Benchmarks=====
^	Protocol^Transfer Rate^Source^Sink^
^	tcp (netcat)|20MB/s|/dev/zero@t42laptop|/dev/null@dns323|
^	tcp (netcat)|18MB/s|disk@t42laptop|/dev/null@dns323|
^	tcp (netcat)|16MB/s|/dev/zero@dns323|/dev/null@t42laptop|
^	tcp (netcat)|12MB/s|/dev/zero@t42laptop|raid1@dns323|
^	tcp (netcat)|12MB/s|disk@t42laptop|raid1@dns323|
^	tcp (netcat)|12MB/s|raid1@dns323|disk@t42laptop|
^	ssh|1.6MB/s|/dev/zero@dns323|/dev/null@t42laptop|
^	ssh|1.3MB/s|/dev/zero@t42laptop|/dev/null@dns323|
^	ftp|12MB/s|disk@t42laptop|raid1@dns323|
^	rsync-over-tcp|5.5MB/s|disk@t42laptop|raid1@dns323|
^	rsync-over-ssh|1MB/s|disk@t42laptop|raid1@dns323|

=====Links=====

[[http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=Benchmarks|Linkstation benchmarks]]