I did this back in September (before recent version upgrade):
Code:
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The Official PixInsight Benchmark version 1.0
Copyright (C) 2014 Pleiades Astrophoto. All Rights Reserved.
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Benchmark version ...... 1.00.07
CPU Identification
CPU vendor ............. GenuineIntel
CPU model .............. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
System Information
Platform ............... Linux
Operating system ....... 3.16.3-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 27 11:31:13 AEST 2014 GNU/Linux
Core version ........... PixInsight Core 01.08.02.1098 (x64)
Logical processors ..... 8
Total memory size ...... 23.273 GiB
Execution Times
Total time ............. 01:28.41
CPU time ............... 01:12.09
Swap time .............. 00:16.30
Swap transfer rate ..... 1016.796 MiB/s
Performance Indices
Total performance ...... 5320
CPU performance ........ 5251
Swap performance ....... 5632
Additional Information
Swap disks ............. Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
Machine description .... Alienware 17/068R5X (2013)
Comments ............... OS: Gentoo Linux
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And just now:
Code:
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The Official PixInsight Benchmark version 1.0
Copyright (C) 2014 Pleiades Astrophoto. All Rights Reserved.
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Benchmark version ...... 1.00.07
CPU Identification
CPU vendor ............. GenuineIntel
CPU model .............. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
System Information
Platform ............... Linux
Operating system ....... 3.16.3-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 27 11:31:13 AEST 2014 GNU/Linux
Core version ........... PixInsight Core 01.08.03.1115 (x64)
Logical processors ..... 8
Total memory size ...... 23.273 GiB
Execution Times
Total time ............. 01:36.92
CPU time ............... 01:13.09
Swap time .............. 00:23.80
Swap transfer rate ..... 696.395 MiB/s
Performance Indices
Total performance ...... 4853
CPU performance ........ 5178
Swap performance ....... 3857
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I'm not exactly sure why the swap performance has degraded so much.