• viewvc + Pygments (browser interface for cvs and svn)
• xspacewarp (Time-Trek like game for X-Windows)
• inadyn (Dynamic DNS updater)
• nagios + nagios-plugins (IT monitoring system)
• ntop + GeoIP + graphviz (Network usage monitor)
• zabbix-server / -agentd / -proxy (Distributed monitoring solution)
• hercules (Mainframe emulator)
• lbench (Multi-thread benchmarking tool)
• nbench (Console benchmarking tool)

This finishes the series of packages I planned to test / run on my ARMedslack system.
I might build other packages in the future, but there are no specific plans at the moment.

I used a (quite old) utility called nbench that was originally written in 1995 but still is a simple way to compare how processors perform, emulated or real. And it has a nice advantage that it can be built on x86, s390 and Arm processors without problems.

Here is the result of Slack/390x-11.0 running in Hercules 3.06 with two emulated processors:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          34.476  :       0.88  :       0.29
STRING SORT         :           3.012  :       1.35  :       0.21
BITFIELD            :      8.3237e+06  :       1.43  :       0.30
FP EMULATION        :          2.3056  :       1.11  :       0.26
FOURIER             :          70.649  :       0.08  :       0.05
ASSIGNMENT          :         0.35083  :       1.33  :       0.35
IDEA                :          94.416  :       1.44  :       0.43
HUFFMAN             :          34.368  :       0.95  :       0.30
NEURAL NET          :         0.10472  :       0.17  :       0.07
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          3.5645  :       0.18  :       0.13
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 1.194
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.136
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : Dual IBM/S390
L2 Cache            :
OS                  : Linux 2.4.33.3
C compiler          : gcc version 3.4.6
libc                :
MEMORY INDEX        : 0.278
INTEGER INDEX       : 0.314
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.075
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
* Trademarks are property of their respective holder.

And here is the result of ArmedSlack running in Qemu:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          199.84  :       5.13  :       1.68
STRING SORT         :          22.453  :      10.03  :       1.55
BITFIELD            :       9.048e+07  :      15.52  :       3.24
FP EMULATION        :          28.281  :      13.57  :       3.13
FOURIER             :          139.34  :       0.16  :       0.09
ASSIGNMENT          :          4.4836  :      17.06  :       4.43
IDEA                :           922.7  :      14.11  :       4.19
HUFFMAN             :          322.93  :       8.95  :       2.86
NEURAL NET          :         0.26406  :       0.42  :       0.18
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          8.8432  :       0.46  :       0.33
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 11.288
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.313
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 :
L2 Cache            :
OS                  : Linux 2.6.32.7-versatile
C compiler          : gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC)
libc                : libc-2.11.1.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 2.814
INTEGER INDEX       : 2.819
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.174
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
* Trademarks are property of their respective holder.

And finally, my host system where Hercules and Qemu run:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          1339.8  :      34.36  :      11.28
STRING SORT         :          282.56  :     126.26  :      19.54
BITFIELD            :      5.6507e+08  :      96.93  :      20.25
FP EMULATION        :          186.88  :      89.67  :      20.69
FOURIER             :           30009  :      34.13  :      19.17
ASSIGNMENT          :          38.938  :     148.16  :      38.43
IDEA                :            8292  :     126.82  :      37.65
HUFFMAN             :          2983.2  :      82.72  :      26.42
NEURAL NET          :            61.4  :      98.63  :      41.49
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          1939.9  :     100.50  :      72.57
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 92.652
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 69.676
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz 3010MHz
L2 Cache            : 6144 KB
OS                  : Linux 2.6.32.7-custom64
C compiler          : gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC)
libc                : libc-2.11.1.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 24.774
INTEGER INDEX       : 21.953
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 38.645
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38

As you can see, the S/390 emulation is the one that suffers most. The new s390x 64-bits version performs a bit faster, but the processor on the host machine tops at 100% during more complex tasks.

I won’t put all the different (i486 / x86_64 / arm / s390 / s390x) packages on my site, but I’ll submit the SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org, so that you can build them yourself on your machines.