From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 7: 9:26 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 7559537B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:09:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from vador.skynet.be (vador.skynet.be [195.238.3.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AB843FAF for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (ip-26.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.26] (may be forged)) by vador.skynet.be (8.12.7/8.12.7/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id h1EF99PU027804; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:09:10 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <26dd01c2d438$d37f0810$52557f42@errno.com> References: <200302140036.h1E0aK3q071051@freefall.freebsd.org> <25c301c2d3e1$8f2e3e30$52557f42@errno.com> <200302140028.21669.chris@pennasoft.com> <265d01c2d3ec$912bbae0$52557f42@errno.com> <26dd01c2d438$d37f0810$52557f42@errno.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:06:31 +0100 To: "Sam Leffler" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap Cc: "Brad Knowles" , "Chris BeHanna" , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 6:53 AM -0800 2003/02/14, Sam Leffler wrote: >> $450 for educational organizations. Wouldn't the FreeBSD >> Foundation qualify? > > The point was that they cost $$$. Not an option for many developers. Fair enough. > Microbenchmarks are valuable here and > have already been heavily used. Good. Can we get a more complete list of the microbenchmarks used, and perhaps get some consideration for some of the benchmarks I've mentioned? > We're at the point where we need something > that exercises the system on a bit larger scale. This indicates to me that LMbench might be a good choice for internal O/S & networking things, and that perhaps one of IOStone, IOBench, or IOZone might be good choices for exercising the disk subsystem. > Eventually we'll get to > the point where large-scale benchmarks are worth running. Large-scale, as in? > Of course what we really need more than benchmarks are people to actually > follow through on the results and fix the problems... I hope to be able to help in a more material fashion by being able to run some comparison benchmarks on my test system here, but I fear that I would not be able to help fix any problems that might be identified. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message