i7-3770K owners, interested in compile metrics.

[graysky]

I am considering this CPU and wanted to ask if anyone has this chip to run a linux-based benchmark for me. How long does it take your system to compile the Linux kernel? To make things easy, I tarred-up and pre-configured the linux source for v3.4.5 and am hosting it here. You may use a live Ubuntu CD 64-bit to do this benchmark if you are a non-Linux user. The advantage of Ubuntu here is that you don't have to install it to the HDD to run the benchmark. You can just boot to the CD and run Ubuntu "live" off the CD. Download Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit live CD, burn it to a blank CD, and boot to it.

Once booted, get the pre-configured source tarball and decompress it. For linux newbs, using Ubuntu, click the icon on the left panel that looks like a black rectangle with a ">_" on it to open a terminal. and do the following:

name=linux-3.4.5_preconfigured_for_benchmark-graysky.tar.xz
wget http://repo-ck.com/bench/$name
tar xJf linux-3.4.5_preconfigured_for_benchmark-graysky.tar.xz

Now get some dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libelf-dev binutils-dev fakeroot build-essential

Compile it using the time command to measure how long it takes:

cd linux-3.4.5_preconfigured_for_benchmark-graysky
make clean
time make -j9 bzImage modules

Note that the -j9 means you want to use 9 threads. Since the 3770 has 4 cores plus 4 hyperthreads, it is recommened to use 4+4+1=9 here. If you are running this benchmark on a lesser CPU please adjust accordingly. For example, a quad core with no hyperthreads should be 4+1=5 and a hexacore with hypertreads would be 6+6+1=13.

Please report the output of the time command along with your hardware details. For example if you are overclocking the CPU or not, final clock speed, etc. Thanks in advance!

My workstation results:

Xeon X3360 8,5x400=3.40 GHz

real    13m29.570s
user    43m30.623s
sys    4m46.478s