From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 11:37:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E0B15857 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id UAA13388; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:37:09 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199909171817.LAA54393@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199909171658.JAA53751@apollo.backplane.com> <199909171817.LAA54393@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:36:53 +0200 To: Matthew Dillon From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: 2xPIIIx450 results & NFS results (was More benchmarking stuff...) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:17 AM -0700 1999/9/17, Matthew Dillon wrote: > What we really need is something that generates a performance > curve based on several variables, including block size, locality of > reference (seek randomosity), amount of parallelism, locality of > parallelism (i.e. operating on same files vs different files), size of > dataset in bytes, and size of dataset in files. URRP! Man, you don't ask for much, do you? ;-) > I don't have the time to do it. Sniff! Well, just adding forking to the current benchmark would be a really significant improvement. Unfortunately, the only thing rustier than my overall skills in programming C (over ten years ago) are my system programming skills in C. I am willing (and want) to slowly push my way into trying to understand programs like Diablo, but that only works when I've got someone much better than I am to lean on (such as you or Joe Greco). However, I would have *no* earthly clue *whatsoever* how to even consider going about making the kinds of changes you're suggesting to postmark. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message