From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 08:21:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA24349 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA24344 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA23904; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:20:21 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:20 EDT Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id HAA27363; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:35:21 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA01815; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:34:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:34:06 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199604241134.HAA01815@lakes> To: lambert.org!terry@dg-rtp.dg.com, torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI Subject: Re: Unices are created equal, but ... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ref.tfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Type: text 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 Well - the leader of the Ziff-Davis Winbench project just happens to be a personal friend of mine! I'm usually either at his house on the weekends, or he's over here... He finds a *lot* of weirdness lying around in some of these graphics cards... it can get kinda ridiculous. He's always got _the latest_ of everything to benchmark. I will pass along any suggestions you'd like to make. Although, they are really a Windows/DOS-centric operation (less DOS now, even.) Also, I could easily pass along any 'netbench' suggestions, but I don't know if they'll make it all the way. However, I think the answer will be that Xstone is the comparable benchmark for us to use... - Dave R. -