From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 15 13:51:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05220 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05215 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA09499; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:48:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604152048.NAA09499@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Unices are created equal, but ... To: torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:48:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Apr 15, 96 09:09:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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). > - ??? > > (the three mentioned should cover different areas, all very reasonable, > but have I missed some important area?) Ziff-Davis "netbench" for DOS, Windows, Windows95, and Macintosh clients against SAMBA and/or NFS and/or Appletalk servers. Ziff-Davis "Winbench" in an emulation environment. Note that "Winbench95" does not use Windows95 WIN32 interfaces -- it's still mostly a 16 bit code benchmark, for what that's worth. I'd like to see Ziff-Davis port to UNIX, but I think it's unlikely. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.