From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 13 21:47:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DD737B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86BE43FBD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h1E5lUnN012035 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:47:32 -0800 (PST)?g (envelope-from sam@errno.com)œ X-Authentication-Warning: ebb.errno.com: Host melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82] claimed to be melange Message-ID: <265d01c2d3ec$912bbae0$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler" To: "Chris BeHanna" , References: <200302140036.h1E0aK3q071051@freefall.freebsd.org> <25c301c2d3e1$8f2e3e30$52557f42@errno.com> <200302140028.21669.chris@pennasoft.com> Subject: Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:47:29 -0800 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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