From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 22:55:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA09421 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 22:55:31 -0700 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA09396 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 22:55:19 -0700 Received: from flinch.io.org (flinch.io.org [198.133.36.153]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA21610 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 01:55:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 01:55:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: New lmbench available (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I think we should get the biggest, baddest FreeBSD machines around and submit lmbench results for them... Russell Carter, you there? :) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 22:28:09 PDT From: Larry McVoy To: lmbench-users@slovax.engr.sgi.com Subject: New lmbench available Hi- All 900 or so of you have download lmbench in the past. I'm writing, with Carl Staelin, a usenix paper about lmbench and I have to give it to them in a week or so. I would really like it if you got the latest and greatest and ran it on any hot machines you have sitting around. And send me the results. When you run the benchmark it now asks you if you want to mail back the results, please say yes. I would like to have a wide set of results for the publication. The paper will not be published until January of 1996. The marketing folks at a different vendor have agreed to send me their results of an as of yet unannounced machine provided that I not publish them before their announcement. If you have access to unannounced machines that will be announced by January, consider including those results. I suggest that you mail me directly to make sure that I know that your results are to be held back from the public until the paper is published. I thank all of you for your use and feedback about lmbench. Your comments have helped make it a better tool. Thanks, --lm P.S. Almost forgot. I stuck the latest on ftp.sgi.com:/pub/lmb.tgz. You need gunzip to unpack it and rcs to build it, and perl to see the results. If you have a linux box, all of the scripts for making fancy graphs work. Cd to lmbench/Results and say "make ps", and then look at the ps files in PS/*. Drafts of the usenix paper are in ftp.sgi.com:/pub/lmbench.ps. Comments welcome, remember this is an as of yet unpublished document....