Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:47:29 -0800 From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> To: "Chris BeHanna" <chris@pennasoft.com>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap Message-ID: <265d01c2d3ec$912bbae0$52557f42@errno.com> References: <200302140036.h1E0aK3q071051@freefall.freebsd.org> <a05200f0dba72122437d7@[10.0.1.2]> <25c301c2d3e1$8f2e3e30$52557f42@errno.com> <200302140028.21669.chris@pennasoft.com>
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> On Thursday 13 February 2003 11:28 pm, Sam Leffler wrote: > > > At 4:36 PM -0800 2003/02/13, Scott Long wrote: > > > > - the classic 'worldstone' > > > > - webstone - /usr/ports/www/webstone > > > > - Fstress - http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/fstress > > > > - ApacheBench - /usr/ports/www/p5-ApacheBench > > > > - netperf - /usr/ports/benchmarks/netperf > > > > > > Are there any other benchmarks that are being considered? What > > > about LMBench? RawIO? Bonnie++? Other disk benchmarks? Do we care > > > about application-layer benchmarks for other protocols, such as SMTP, > > > POP3, or IMAP? > > > > > > Just curious. Thanks! > > > > This can quickly turn into a bikeshed, but suggest ones. We're looking for > > good benchmarks. lmbench, rawio, and bonniee are rather "micro" in nature > > (not bad, just limited in their usefulness). > > SpecFS (NFS ops/sec benchmark) > List price on SPEC SFS97 R1 is $900. And my recollection is that it was involved to setup and run. Benchmarks must be unencumbered; be easy to setup+run by one person; and not require lots of equipment. For the most part we are looking for benchmarks that will help tune system performance; not generate press releases. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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