From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 17: 8:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femme.listmistress.org (bgp01560565bgs.gambrl01.md.comcast.net [68.50.32.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7574337B446; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from femme.listmistress.org (trish@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by femme.listmistress.org (8.12.3/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5706lMO003755; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:06:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost) by femme.listmistress.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g5706jOr003752; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:06:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: femme.listmistress.org: trish owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:06:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Trish Lynch X-X-Sender: To: John Baldwin Cc: Trish Lynch , Subject: Re: Project: a benchmark utility In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020606200607.R403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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 -- Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net FreeBSD The Power to Serve Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message