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From: Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Unices are created equal, but ...
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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, John S. Dyson wrote:

[...]
> > If somebody wants to do benchmarking,I'd suggest using at least
> >  - lmbench (nice microbenchmark)
> >  - bonnie (reasonable disk performance benchmark)
> >  - webstone (or something similar. But use "apache" as the server, not 
> >    some braindead horror like NCSA).
> >  - ???
> > 
> Above list is ok, but CERTAINLY not sufficient.
> 
> > (the three mentioned should cover different areas, all very reasonable, 
> > but have I missed some important area?)
> > 
> Above list has no testing under VM load.  That is where memory scheduling
> policies start taking effect.  There are other forms of loading also, like
> tty subsystems (some people still use those.)  Another, is how well do big disk
> farms work (lots of sustained concurrent I/O)?  How does the system work
> with many many TCP connections (little benchmarks like lmbench are interesting
> but don't show performance in an ISP or large workstation situation)?
> 
> John
> 
How about running those three at the same time, it sould put the box 
under some considerable load.
Bryn
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