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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:42:24 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@applmath.scu.edu>
Cc:        Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Volunteering: Old fart with old CPUs
Message-ID:  <3C754DA0.A56CA081@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.GHP.4.21.0202210950170.11872-100000@hpux27.dc.engr.scu.edu>

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"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

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