From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 21 11:43: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CEC37B405; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:43:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0500.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.245] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dz6x-0004MH-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:42:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3C754DA0.A56CA081@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:42:24 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dorr H. Clark" Cc: Bob Van Valzah , John Baldwin , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volunteering: Old fart with old CPUs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "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/ FreeBSD 4.5 vs. FreeBSD 5.0, yes. FreeBSD X vs. any other OS, no... this is a collection of microbenchmarks, not a benchmark like webbench or polygraph, which attempt to model real world load (polygraph less than webbench, since it cheats to prevent cache algorithms from working). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message