Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:13:11 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] VM Regress - A VM regression and test tool |
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Mel wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On the other hand, if somebody could code up some scriptable > > benchmarks that approximate real workloads better than the > > current benchmarks do, I'd certainly appreciate it. > > This looks like an overall system benchmark again and while it would be > great to have, it is not what I aim to provide here with VM Regress. > > > For web serving, for example, I wouldn't mind a benchmark that: > > > > <Benchmark snipped> > > That benchmarks like it would be more likely to test network throughput > than VM performance although I could be misunderstanding your benchmark,
The thing is that the indivual 'users' will be downloading files at modem and adsl speeds, meaning a LOT of apache daemons could be sitting around on the server.
You are right though that this is more of an overall system benchmark than a pure VM test. On the other hand, the VM doesn't function on its own, it really needs to be part of a larger system ;)
> In VM Regress land, I would be much more likely to provide a benchmark > that did something like the folllowing. (Remember that VM Regress aims > to provide more than been a pure benchmarking tool. Benchmarking is just > one aspect)
That might be a useful test. How useful it would be we can't really know until we've tried, but it definately does sound like it's worth a try...
> > Volunteers ? ;) > > Not for that particular benchmark, but how useful would the VM Regress > equivilant be?
I can't say in advance how useful it would be, but my gut feeling is that it might help getting things right.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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