Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:06:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Project: a benchmark utility Message-ID: <20020606200607.R403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020606200221.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 06-Jun-2002 Trish Lynch wrote:
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > what types of things can be done by people who are generally just
> > learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to
> > patiently work with a fast learner (yes, honestly my biggest fear is since
> > that I'm entirely self taught is that I have some bad habits, and someone
> > must be willing to LART me at every opportunity on them until I learn)
> >
> > I take intruction well, and I am willing at admit I know NOTHING
> > and am willing to learn. Someone need help on anything they see that I can
> > help out with in my unemployed spare time?
> >
> > I'd even be willing to jump into the deep end if there's someone
> > williong to teach me how to tread water.
>
> Actually, if there's a Perl/Tcl/Python/C/C++/shell hacker running around I
> could use a decent benchmarking tool to compare stable and current. Basically,
> what I would like is to be able to do the following:
>
> bench -n <number of trials> <command to run>
>
> So for example:
>
> bench -n 20 buildworld -j4
>
> To run my buildworld script 20 times (with -j4 passed in as an argument to
> buildworld). I would like the program/script/whatever to collect time -l
> stats for each iteration. It can simply spit the time -l output to a simple
> text file in a sensible format (one line per run, with a specific order of
> columns for example, just the numbers to make the file easier to parse).
>
> Once I have that, it would be nice to have a simple tool that would take one
> of these tabular files as input and spit out appropriate statistics about
> each column (mean, mode, median, stddev, highlight outliers, etc.). If
> some sensible (i.e. meaningful) graphs can be generated from this data using
> gnuplot or some such that would be nice, too. Any takers?
>
oh one other thing, I won;t actually get to working on it til tomorrow
morning, my SO has forcefully told me to take a break.
-Trish
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