From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 13:16:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771BA16A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netlx014.civ.utwente.nl (netlx014.civ.utwente.nl [130.89.1.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A2E43FAF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r.s.a.vandomburg@student.utwente.nl) Received: from gog (gog.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.107]) by netlx014.civ.utwente.nl (8.11.4/HKD) with SMTP id h88KGYt21263; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:16:35 +0200 Message-ID: <000d01c37646$1c053f00$6ba55982@gog> From: "Roderick van Domburg" To: References: <000901c37628$d683ff10$6ba55982@gog> <1063042016.cea6637e4e7eb@mailhub.yumyumyum.org> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:16:38 +0200 Organization: University of Twente MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.0 X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Benchmarking KSE and SMPng X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:16:44 -0000 > Just in case you don't know, there is no 5-STABLE yet. All the 5.x Releases have > been based on -CURRENT. Indeed, I stand corrected. > > Question is then which {application,theoretical} benchmarks to run under > > which circumstances. Although I've heard of bonnie et al, I'm new to the > > benchmarking business and welcome any suggestions. > > > Something that might be interesting to try is running mysql with libc_r, > linuxthreads, libkse, and libthr, using the included mysql benchmarks that come > with mysql. I used those benchmarks to test mysql on a few of the machines I > needed to install it on at one point, and I know mysql utilizes threads. Off > the top of my head I can't think of anything other than databases that > performed badly on FreeBSD before due to threading issues. How about Apache2 or locked subsystems (I/O and networking spring to mind)? Regards, Roderick