Adhoc Browser Performance Testing (IE8, Google Chrome2, Firefox3.5) - Round 2 (with SSD)

This time I tried with IE8 and entirely different system again I used the same link to see the performance http://ideamill.synaptrixgroup.com/jquery/tablefilter/largetabletest.htm

(I also open/close the borwser few times to bring all the moving parts close to the heart of OS -:) )

	Chrome2	IE8	Firefox3.5
Loading the above link button – iteration 1	0.5 sec	1.6 Sec	1.2 Sec
Loading the above link– iteration 2 (Close the browser, reload it again)	0.5 sec	1.7 Sec	1.1 Sec
Clicking GO button – iteration 1	1.9 Sec	Broken and it took 5.5 Sec to hide the table and stopped rendering the table below “Go” button. I tried compatible mode but it also didn't help.	4.3 Sec

For the kick, I checked with iPhone OS3.0 safari, It took 0.5 sec to show few rows and tool almost 3.5 minutes to render the entire page. I also checked it render all the rows. I tried to click the "Go" button, It did not work. Though it is not bad as it is not meant for this kind of load.

System used:

Core2Duo 3 GB DDRII RAM

Gskill Falcon 128GB SSD

All the test ran on the same system.

Disclaimer:

I considered Network latencies, Network congestion etc would be same for all the browser

as it is tested on the same system. You can still use the given Link to try it yourself.

I am Ma(c)trixed

I bought a Macbook after a long deliberation. I have been planning to do something with iPhone. But iPhone SDK is not running on my Windows. I tried to install mac on my win notebook and gave up. It is great strategy for Apple otherwise I would never have thought of buying. I had been Pro PC guy until i started working with Mac. Hm.. how am I feeling after couple of weeks of usage.... I really liked many things, for ex build quality, usability and nuance of many other things like accessibility (I just need 2 fingers to scroll, 4 fingers to see all the open window etc). It wakes up very quickly after the lit is opened. Its ready as soon as I moved the lit to comfortable view position. Overall it feels better compare to windows. But I am not going to bother what OS is actually all I need is what kind of application I am running and how it helps me to work with those apps. I am following Google's philosophy, bothering which OS is going to soon become OLD SCHOOL of thought. Hm.. But I do use notebook for otherthings like Using Java/J2ee, Python and Erlang development. I hit a bottleneck as some of the niche application needs to be compiled for Mac. I tried,

1. FFMpeg
2. Image Magick
3. OCRopus
4. Tesseract etc. I need to spend sometime to find binaries, in fact, for windows iteself. Mac hm.. I needed to compile it from source but I never tried so far.

I am also using another laptop which is Windows 7 with GSkill Falcon Solid state drive (SSD) It is fast amazingly fast due to ssd. One more thing, Mac is helping me to explore my guts into mobile computing as I am quite interested in mobile computing. Let me try somthing soon....

I am also quite impressed with Windows 7 though it is glorified Vista but better polished n shiny Vista. What the hell Microsoft is doing. It is left and right fighting with others, one side with Apple (OS, iPod, Mobile OS), with Sony and Nintendo (PS3 and Wii), with Google (gmail, mobile os and Bing, did I say Search), with Sun (J2ee). hm... I am not able to list all and how MS is getting into.. It is seperate blog or book as its entirety...

IBM's FUD about SSD claim

It is surprise to see IBM into SSD market place and its welcoming effect too. IBM's article http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/comments. I can see SSD go mainstream and also I read somewhere about IBM's reservation about using it for commodity servers, but not interested in locating them probably googling will locate that. Probably Sun shines here with ZFS and its embrace of SLC SSD. I came to this blog from storagesearch and author actually dismissed IBM's above claim as FUD(wiki for FUD). Please look at http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd.html.

Oh... I am using Google's Chrome to post this.....

SSD Performance

Today I saw an excellent review about OCZ 64 GB MLC SSD Disk running on Vista.
Read/Write

OCZ Core SSD	read	write
average STR throughput	125MiB/sec	73MiB/sec
typical random access penalty	0.43ms	246ms
idle power use	~1W
load power use	<3w

7200 RPM WD hard disk

WD6400AAKS	read	write
average STR throughput	85MiB/sec	85MiB/sec
typical random access penalty	13.6ms	17ms
idle power use	~6W
load power use	~9W

You can follow the below link to read fully http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106

However, Next generation controllers do promise the unbelievable performance. Fabless chip designing firm Indilinx pushed read and write speed to 230MB/s and 170MB/s for SLC and 200MB/s, 160MB/s for MLC SSD. So probably MLC SSDs going to blow out its HDD brothern within 6-8 months time period from now. Probably Apple's forthcoming Macbook and Macbookpro will have options for SSDs like its beautiful younger sister Macbook air. Interstingly density increase NAND will help iPhone to have more memory soon.

Solid State Drive (SSD) and Server Hardware

SSD will make big difference in Enterprise computing as it is moved beyond first generation For ex 1G SSD from MTRON 100MB/sec and write speed of >80 MB/sec ( I didn't consider other big players like TMS (Texas Memory Systems) they are niche but not viable for small and medium businesses) will itself is better compare to the mechanical platter based disks except for the price premium. Later this year 2008 Server vendor like HP, Dell, IBM, Sun Microsystem will offer server platform utilizing SSDs capabilities. We gain
1. Very fast read access
2. Better write performance
Which will make
1. High Performance
2. High reliability
3. increased Throughput
So probably hardware vendor at least should give options to go for SSD for the above reasons.