Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:32:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Unices are created equal, but ... |
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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, John S. Dyson wrote:
[...] > > If somebody wants to do benchmarking,I'd suggest using at least > > - lmbench (nice microbenchmark) > > - bonnie (reasonable disk performance benchmark) > > - webstone (or something similar. But use "apache" as the server, not > > some braindead horror like NCSA). > > - ??? > > > Above list is ok, but CERTAINLY not sufficient. > > > (the three mentioned should cover different areas, all very reasonable, > > but have I missed some important area?) > > > Above list has no testing under VM load. That is where memory scheduling > policies start taking effect. There are other forms of loading also, like > tty subsystems (some people still use those.) Another, is how well do big disk > farms work (lots of sustained concurrent I/O)? How does the system work > with many many TCP connections (little benchmarks like lmbench are interesting > but don't show performance in an ISP or large workstation situation)? > > John > How about running those three at the same time, it sould put the box under some considerable load. Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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