From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 21 10:48:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.whitebarn.com (Spin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F62837B402; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:48:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from Talarian.Com (Chin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.79]) by smtp.whitebarn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA98264; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:48:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from Bob@Talarian.Com) Message-ID: <3C7540BD.3030805@Talarian.Com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:47:25 -0600 From: Bob Van Valzah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dorr H. Clark" Cc: John Baldwin , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volunteering: Old fart with old CPUs References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050500020105070307000804" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------050500020105070307000804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the tip. I actually worked with Larry McVoy on a Unix porting project in the late 80's. I'd forgotten about lmbench. Are there any particular tests within lmbench which you'd find particularly telling? Bob Dorr H. Clark wrote: >On 21 Feb 2002, Bob Van Valzah wrote: > >>Could you please suggest something to generate a good system call load >>for a profiled kernel? Maybe a -j4 buildworld of 4.5-RELEASE? Maybe an >>Apache build? Lemmie know. >> > >For profiling kernels, lmbench is a superior package: > >http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/ > >-dhc > --------------050500020105070307000804 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the tip. I actually worked with Larry McVoy on a Unix porting project in the late 80's. I'd forgotten about lmbench. Are there any particular tests within lmbench which you'd find particularly telling?

    Bob

Dorr H. Clark wrote:
On 21 Feb 2002, Bob Van Valzah wrote:

Could you please suggest something to generate a good system call load
for a profiled kernel? Maybe a -j4 buildworld of 4.5-RELEASE? Maybe an
Apache build? Lemmie know.

For profiling kernels, lmbench is a superior package:

http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/

-dhc

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