From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 21 11:58:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA06668 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA06657 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) id OAA01102; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:57:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711211957.OAA01102@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Is there a FreeBSD benchmark program? In-Reply-To: from "David E. Cross" at "Nov 21, 97 01:23:22 pm" To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:57:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: reyesf@super.zippo.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David E. Cross said: > On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > I recently saw a message about someone upgrading from 2.2-stable to > > 2.2.5 and having serious performance degratation. I was wondering if > > there was any benchmark program for FreeBSD. This may help both users > > and kernel developers on checking whether a new kernel or > > configuration is better. > > /usr/ports/benchmarks > I am usually very careful about maintaining performance in my area(s) (VM and sometimes VFS) code. I have some private benchmarks and use public benchmarks to verify performance. I think that BDE and PHK both are very careful also. Any time a new benchmark comes across the mailing lists, we usually grab onto them :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com