From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 18:43:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00641 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA00634 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA18051; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:13:35 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604300143.LAA18051@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: tests To: andrew@sedona.net (Andrew S. Clapp) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:13:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604291946.NAA24176@merlin.sedona.net> from "Andrew S. Clapp" at Apr 29, 96 01:46:45 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew S. Clapp stands accused of saying: > > Anybody know where to find a benchmark package like dhry? > We are pitting solaris-x86 against freebsd! :-) Oughtta > be a interesting race as sunsoft says that 2.5 is "supposed" > to be competitive. Why would an operating system significantly bias a CPU speed benchmark? If you're interested in OS speed, you want things like 'bytebench' and 'lmbench' and 'bonnie', all of which are in the FreeBSD ports collection. > Andrew S. Clapp Sedona Internet -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[