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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Rahul Vachher wrote:

> I have been looking for specific tests targetted at the SMP implementation 
> of FreeBSD in 6.1

For various reasons, both the smp@ and qa@ mailing lists are largely unused. 
You may want to post this request to performance@FreeBSD.org (if you haven't 
already).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

>
> I have the following doubts:
>
> 1) Must the application (say netperf) make use of
> threads in order to benefit in terms of speed-up?
>
> 2) Will multiple instances of the application running
> in parallel good enough to test the same?
>
> 3) What tools can be used to specifically target/test
> the SMP implementation?
>
> 4) Any idea what is being run on the netperf cluster
> to test the same?
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks a ton!
>
> Rahul
>
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