Performance Testing with NIB3

NIB Stress Testing #2 Build:

• Manjaro ARM, RPI4B/4GB
• XFCE
• Resolution 1024x768
• VICE 3.7.1 r43529
• tcpser 1.15a (Jim Brain)
• Disable power settings, screensaver and lock.

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Trial 1, Preliminary

• removed e.data and bd.data to force reconfiguration of bpc.
• configured "Bayou Black" BBS
• No sound
• Full Screen (alt-D) with decorations (alt-B)
• config file below

~/.config/vice/vicerc 
[Version]
ConfigVersion=3.7.1

[SCPU64]
FullscreenDecorations=1
Window0Height=768
Window0Width=1024
Window0Xpos=0
Window0Ypos=0
Sound=0
SCPU64Name="/home/jay/JiffyDOS/scpu64.bin"
MachineVideoStandard=2
VICIIFullscreen=1
VICIIModel=4
RsDevice3ip232=1
RsDevice3Baud=38400
Acia1Dev=2
Acia1Enable=1
Drive8Type=4844
Drive9Type=1581
Drive10Type=1542
DosName1541ii="/home/jay/JiffyDOS/JiffyDOS_1541-II.bin"
DosName1581="/home/jay/JiffyDOS/JiffyDOS_1581.bin"
DosNameCMDHD="/home/jay/JiffyDOS/CMD HD BOOTROM v280.bin"

• Time Test - allowing board to idle while running, no network transmissions for about 3 hours to witness time drift.
  • Start 3:33 am
  • Stop at 5:05 am.
• Test was stopped as there was no time drift (difference between the NIB clock and the host clock for over 1.5 hours. Additionally, all witnessed cpu speeds were a constant 100%.
• Configuration and addition to network.
• Running with a configuration, system is between 80-100%. Not acceptable. Going to retry with a lower resolution.
• set to 640x480, took aspect true off, set rendering to nearest neighbor. Flickered to 99% during startup temporarily and then picked back up to 100% and 59.8 fps.
  • • I think I may have a winner. Need to set up subs and get it going for the next test of a live setup. I see no point in testing x64sc until the subs are setup. I wanted to do prelims to see if I could get the board to idle at 100% using xscpu64. x64sc historically has been less resource intensive than xscpu64.
• Testing with Openbox and not treatments
• resolution 640x480, no aspect, nearest neighbor, no sound, fullscreen with menu decorations.
• Note: I plan on running production without the menu and status bars. They are strictly being run to enable monitoring of the %CPU and fps of VICE-Emu