From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 03:45:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAA71065670 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:45:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from numardbsd@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD11F8FC12 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:45:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from numardbsd@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so10046232rvf.43 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:45:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=7g46XHpKIPNZnimD7oXFkTIwzxBzdikU/Vn6TPKtwgM=; b=L6E6MgGKH5j4Tyo94NNy9HMXZpvgveLX3lKmU9DnwNvBKhdF3uHIGwZONuU6oych0N Tp0gNO3YgaJadDJAphrarmAnD3EoUkobIjjZvw3L3QjivoUqKgBkmNLT55yiKbDQ7qQy IGNXsNteULyBK99FiAVwZITaew0PzGszle3so= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=TZmfdTDR+wQqXeTz2eiuEfuS73798aMhHDVO8996u2kvNYF4w3zIjhv6qb3Cbq2K1l Vn++pKD4m9OeEUSauxOBknImP8bJbyf/pCBWMU9ZOzIZx+nWuUZpCwiGkQW8IQlu16nf XaZNp+gJ9BV8aoHrD4oHwPHN08kT0SHUK7qvc= Received: by 10.141.76.1 with SMTP id d1mr7415790rvl.110.1231384708447; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.187.11 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:18:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:18:28 +1100 From: "Norberto Meijome" To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Measuring Interactive performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:45:17 -0000 Hi everyone, This question started as something I'm working on @ day job (which is a Linux / OSX shop)...but as I was thinking about it, it started to move into FBSD somewhat more... I heard several times either - 'FreeBSD is more responsive at high loads',or - 'ULE scheduler provides better interactivity under heavy loads' and I took them to mean that, under x load, FreeBSD/ULE would seem more 'reactive' to user's commands than OtherSytem/4BSD under load x. Is that a correct assumption? Assuming the answer to the above is "correct", to the second part of the email - I am interested in measuring 'interactive performance' in a more scientific fashion than having Bob sitting in front of a series of setups and tell me how they "feel". Are there any OSS tools (or commercial, other than mercury) that would allow me to automate desktop interactions (launch app, open file, perform operation, timestamp, repeat, rinse) ? Even if there's a tool that would allow for *part* of that... ? Desktop environment = KDE, Gnome, OSX TIA!!!! B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "The only people that never change are the stupid and the dead" Jorge Luis Borges. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.