From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 09:05:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCFF16A473 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 09:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ah@shadow.splashground.de) Received: from shadow.splashground.de (shadow.splashground.de [85.214.34.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E59F343D48 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 09:05:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ah@shadow.splashground.de) Received: (qmail 25583 invoked by uid 1001); 21 May 2006 11:03:41 +0200 Date: 21 May 2006 11:03:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20060521090341.25582.qmail@shadow.splashground.de> User-Agent: Emai/0.0.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline References: <446DE927.2060909@fer.hr> <20060520182238.R8068@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20060520182238.R8068@fledge.watson.org> From: Andreas Hauser To: Robert Watson X-License: BSD X-Addicted: yeah Cc: performance@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , Michael Vince Subject: Re: (Another) simple benchmark X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:05:02 -0000 rwatson wrote @ Sat, 20 May 2006 18:25:14 +0100 (BST): > I'm set up to easily benchmark FreeBSD in our netperf cluster, but I'm not set > up to easily do comparisons with Linux, since we don't have a pluggable > netboot Linux to install in that environment. If someone wants to provide > some pointers doing that, I'm happy to explore doing it, but ideally it would > be something like "tftp export file and NFS tree , boot". This is the > model we use for FreeBSD in the netperf cluster, and it works very well :-). This should get you started with booting linux via PXE: http://www.splashground.de/~andy/linux/tftpboot.tar.gz Unpack as the root of you tftp server and add to your dhcp.conf: "filename /pxelinux.0". Edit tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg accordingly. -- Andy