• needed packages: libpng12-dev libgd2-dev
• download the sources
• untar the file tar xvzf latencytest0.42-png.tgz in your favourite direcory
• cd latencytest0.42-png
• make latencytest : note: "rtc"-tests cannot be compiled
• run the testscript ./do_tests none <audio-frags> <fragmentsize> <bg.sync-freq> <filesize> as root
  • you have to specify all 5 arguments.
  • you must have access to the Xserver
  • probably turn off the screensaver before running the test
  • you might want to tune your harddisks with ./tunedisk

  example: ./do_tests none 3 256 0 350000000

• the results will appear in the html-folder

for further information read the README